The reservation over the several parcels of land described in Schedule 1 to this Act for the several purposes specified in that Schedule is hereby cancelled, and the said lands are hereby declared to be Crown lands available for disposal under the Land Act 1924.

(1) The said notice of forfeiture is hereby revoked.

(2) The said occupation license with right of purchase is hereby revived, and shall be deemed to have continued to operate as if the said forfeiture had not taken place.

(3) The District Land Registrar for the Land Registration District of Auckland, on being requested so to do by the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the North Auckland Land District, is hereby empowered and directed to make such entries in the Register as may be necessary to give effect to the provisions of this section.

Notwithstanding anything in section thirty-seven of the Public Reserves and Domains Act 1908, the amount of the accumulated funds in respect of the Hillsborough Square Domain which at the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, stood to the credit of the Mount Roskill Road Board in its capacity as the Hillsborough Square Domain Board may be expended by the said Road Board in its capacity as the Mount Roskill Domain Board on the management, administration, and improvement of the Mount Roskill Domain.

(1) The said notices of forfeiture are hereby revoked.

(2) The said lease in perpetuity and the said occupation license with right of purchase are hereby revived, and shall be deemed to have continued to operate as if the said lease and the said license had not been forfeited.

(3) The District Land Registrar for the Land Registration District of Auckland, on being requested so to do by the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the North Auckland Land District, is hereby empowered and directed to make such entries in the Register as may be necessary to give effect to the provisions of this section.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Forests Act 1949, the Governor-General may, by Proclamation, proclaim as a road the land hereinafter described.

(2) The land so authorized to be proclaimed as a road is particularly described as follows:—

• All that area of land, comprising one rood twenty-one perches, being portion of Section 25, Block X, Waipoua Survey District, North Auckland Land District.

• Also all that area of land, comprising eight perches, being portion of Section 26, Block X, Waipoua Survey District, North Auckland Land District.

As the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S 16/1247, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the aforesaid deed of grant, in the Religious Charitable and Educational Trusts Act Amendment Act 1865, or in the Church of England Trusts Act 1913 [Repealed], it shall be lawful for the General Trust Board of the Diocese of Auckland, with the consent of the Standing Committee of the General Synod, to sell to His Majesty, at such price as it may think fit, the land described in subsection five hereof.

(2) The said Board is hereby authorized to execute such instruments as may be necessary to give effect to such sale, and thereupon the said land shall be deemed to be freed from the trusts hereinbefore mentioned.

(3) The proceeds of such sale shall be applied by the said Board to the purchase of other freehold hereditaments in New Zealand, or to effecting permanent improvements to any other hereditaments held on the same trusts as hereinbefore mentioned, or may be invested in any securities for the time being permitted by lawful authority for the investment of trust funds.

(4) All hereditaments purchased under the power given by the preceding subsection shall be held on the trusts hereinbefore mentioned.

(5) The land to which subsection one hereof relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area, situated at Orakei, in the Parish of Waitemata, North Auckland Land District, being the whole of the land included in the hereinbefore-mentioned grant, containing an area of four acres and thirty-six perches, more or less, and shown as Lots 1, 2, and 3 on plan No 1330P, deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, North Auckland Land District.

The authority conferred by section forty-three of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1924 to apply the proceeds of the sale of portion of the Pahurehure Domain towards the purchase of the land described in subsection four of the said section forty-three shall extend to authorize the application of the said proceeds towards the purchase of any portion of the said land.

(1) The reservation as an endowment for primary education over the lands described in subsection two hereof is hereby cancelled, and the said lands are hereby declared to be reserved for recreation purposes and to be subject to the Reserves Act 1977.

(2) The lands to which subsection one hereof relates are particularly described as follows:—

All that land in the North Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement twenty-five and one-tenth perches, being portion of Allotment 180, Parish of Takapuna: bounded towards the north by the mean high-water mark of the sea; towards the east by Lot 7 of Allotment 180 aforesaid, 320 links; towards the south by a proposed public road, 50 links; and towards the north by Lot 6 of Allotment 180, 325.75 links.

Also all that land in the North Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement twenty-five and eight-tenths perches: bounded towards the north by a proposed public road, 50 links; towards the east by Lot 23 of Allotment 180, 316.58 links; towards the south by a proposed public road, 51.56 links; and towards the west by Lot 22 of the same allotment, 329.17 links.

Be all the aforesaid linkages a little more or less; as the same are delineated on plan marked L and S 25/463, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

Whereas Lots 1 to 7 of Allotment 38, Parish of Titirangi, containing in all approximately five acres three roods twenty perches, is vested in His Majesty the King and used for the purpose of a Probation Home for boys: And whereas the said land and the buildings erected thereon are now no longer required for such purpose: And whereas it is expedient that the said land and buildings should be vested in the Auckland Grammar School Board for the purposes of the Auckland Grammar Schools: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Public Works Act 1908, or any other Act, the Governor-General, on payment by the said Board of such amount (if any) as may be agreed on between the Minister of Education and the said Board, may, by Warrant under his hand, empower and direct the District Land Registrar for the Land Registration District of Auckland to issue to the said Board a certificate of title in respect of the said land.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section thirty-seven of the Public Reserves and Domains Act 1908, the Otahuhu Borough Council may from time to time expend out of the funds accrued and that may hereafter accrue to its credit in its capacity as the Otahuhu Domain Board in respect of that portion of the Otahuhu Domain hereinafter described such sum or sums as the Minister of Lands approves towards the management, administration, and improvement of Lot 16 of small lots near the Village of Otahuhu, Block VI, Otahuhu Survey District, containing an area of three acres one rood, and being land acquired by the said Council for recreation purposes.

(2) The portion of the Otahuhu Domain hereinbefore referred to is more particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the North Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement five acres, more or less, being Section 19, Suburbs of Otahuhu: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L and S 1/569, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

(1) It shall be lawful for the Auckland City Council to pay and contribute out of its General Account the sum of twenty-eight thousand dollars towards the purchase-money for the said land and such proportion of the costs of the acquisition and vesting thereof as has been agreed on between the Crown and the Auckland City Council.

(2) On such land becoming vested in His Majesty the Governor-General shall declare the land described in subsection five hereof to be a reserve for scenic purposes under the provisions of the Scenery Preservation Act 1908, and shall vest the control thereof in the Auckland City Council.

(3) The Governor-General may, by Warrant under his hand, authorize and direct the issue of a certificate of title in favour of the Corporation of the City of Auckland for the land described in subsection six hereof, to be held by the said Corporation as a recreation reserve under the provisions of the Municipal Corporations Act 1920.

(4) No stamp duty or gift duty shall be payable in respect of the hereinbefore-recited agreement or any instrument necessary for the purpose of giving effect thereto, or for the vesting of the land described in subsection six hereof in the Corporation of the City of Auckland.

(5) The land to which subsection two hereof relates is more particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the North Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement six hundred and fifty-two acres two roods, more or less, being Lot 2 of Allotment 8, Parish of Waitakerei: as the same is more particularly delineated on a plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor of the North Auckland Land District, at Auckland, and numbered 23501.

(6) The land to which subsection three hereof relates is more particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the North Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement five hundred and seventeen acres three roods twenty perches, more or less, being Lot 1 of Allotment 8, Parish of Waitakerei: as the same is more particularly delineated on a plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor of the North Auckland Land District, at Auckland, and numbered 23501.

(1) The setting-apart for the purposes of a Government House of the land described in subsection three hereof is hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby vested in the Council of the University of Auckland in trust as portion of a site for a University and subject to the provisions of the Auckland University College Site Act 1919.

(2) The vesting in the Council of the University of Auckland of the lands described in subsection four hereof in trust as portion of a site for a University is hereby revoked, and the said lands are hereby set apart for the purposes of a Government House.

(3) The land to which subsection one hereof relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the North Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement ten and eleven-hundredths perches, more or less, being Allotment 4 of Section 6, City of Auckland: commencing at a point distant from Symonds Street 184.15 links on a bearing of 328° 13′ 20″: bounded towards the south-west by Allotment 2 of Section 6, City of Auckland, bearing 328° 13′ 20″, 287.56 links; towards the north-east generally by Allotment 1 of Section 6, City of Auckland, bearing 134° 46′ 30″, 188.98 links, and bearing 171° 10′ 30″, 112.68 links, to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid bearings and linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L and S 6/6/228, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged green.

(4) The land to which subsection two hereof relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the North Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement two and sixteen-hundredths perches, more or less, being part of Allotment 2, Section 6, City of Auckland: commencing at a point in Symonds Street: bounded towards the north-east by Allotment 1 of Section 6, City of Auckland, bearing 328° 13′ 20″, 184.15 links; towards the south-west generally by the other part of Allotment 2 of Section 6, City of Auckland, bearing 171° 10′ 30″, 37.52 links, and bearing 142° 38′ 10″, 150.33 links, to the point of commencement

Also all that area in the North Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement eight and four-hundredths perches, more or less, being part of Allotment 2, Section 6, City of Auckland: commencing at a point distant from Symonds Street 471.71 links on a bearing of 328° 13′ 20″: bounded towards the north-east generally by Allotment 1 of Section 6, City of Auckland, bearing 328° 13′ 20″, 150.15 links; bearing 310° 34′ 56″, 104.47 links; bearing 306° 24′ 20″, 38.13 links: towards the south-west generally by the other part of Allotment 2 of Section 6, City of Auckland, bearing 142° 45′, 156.69 links, and bearing 134° 46′ 30″, 132.77 links, to the point of commencement.

Be all the aforesaid bearings and linkages more or less: as the same are delineated on the plan marked L and S 6/6/228, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

(1) The roads as shown in green colour on the plan marked 23519, deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, North Auckland Land District, Auckland, and also shown on a copy of the same deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and marked L and S 16/1309, are hereby closed, and shall be deemed to have been so closed as from the twenty-sixth day of January, nineteen hundred and fifteen.

(2) The lands comprised within the roads so closed are hereby declared to be and to have been as from the date aforesaid Crown lands available for disposal under the Land Act 1924, or the Land Act 1908, as the case may be, and all dealings with such lands heretofore carried out shall have effect accordingly.

Whereas for the purpose of subdividing certain education reserves into allotments suitable for disposal and of providing road access to such allotments it is expedient that the interests in lease of education reserve, Lot 3 of Allotment 13 of Section 12, Suburbs of Auckland, containing an area of two acres two roods twelve perches, should be acquired: And whereas the owner of the said lease and the mortgagees interested in the said lease are prepared to surrender their interests therein: And whereas section four of the Education Reserves Amendment Act 1914 [Repealed], provides that the power contained in section three of the Education Reserves Amendment Act 1913 [Repealed], to determine the lease of an education reserve for subdivision purposes shall not extend to land which does not exceed fifty acres in area: And whereas in consequence of that provision payment of compensation in respect of such surrender as aforesaid cannot be made pursuant to section three of the Education Reserves Amendment Act 1924: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

It shall be lawful to pay out of the Ordinary Revenue Account of the Consolidated Fund, without further appropriation than this section, the amount of compensation that the Minister of Education may agree to pay in respect of the surrender of the lease of Lot 3 of Allotment 13 of Section 12, Suburbs of Auckland, and in respect of the surrender of mortgages affecting such lease. Subsections two to five of section three of the Education Reserves Amendment Act 1924 [Repealed], shall, with the necessary modifications, apply with respect to such payment as if it were a payment made pursuant to that section.

(1) Subject to agreement being reached between the Minister of Education and the Auckland City Council with respect to the cancellation of the reservation over the area referred to in paragraph (a) of this subsection the Governor-General may—

• (a) Cancel the reservation as a site for a public hall over the land described in subsection three hereof and declare the said land to be permanently reserved as a site for a public school:

• (b) Cancel the reservation as an endowment for education purposes over the land described in subsection four hereof and vest the said land in the Corporation of the City of Auckland in trust for the purposes of public recreation:

• (c) Cancel the reservation as an endowment for education purposes over the land described in subsection five hereof and vest the said land in the Corporation of the City of Auckland as a public road:

• (d) Cancel the reservation as an endowment for education purposes over the land described in subsection six hereof and vest the said land in the Corporation of the City of Auckland in trust as a catchment area for water-supply purposes.

(2) In consideration of the surrender to the Land Board of the lease of the land described in subsection seven hereof it shall be lawful to pay out of the Ordinary Revenue Account of the Consolidated Fund, without further appropriation than this section, the sum of one thousand one hundred dollars as compensation in respect of such surrender. Subsections two to five of section three of the Education Reserves Amendment Act 1924 [Repealed], shall, with the necessary modifications, apply with respect to such payment as if it were a payment made pursuant to subsection one of that section.

(3) The land to which paragraph (a) of subsection one hereof relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the North Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement one acre two roods one perch, more or less, being Allotment 20A of Section 12, Suburbs of Auckland.

(4) The land to which paragraph (b) of subsection one hereof relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the North Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement one acre, more or less, and being Allotment 30 of Section 4, Suburbs of Auckland.

(5) The land to which paragraph (c) of subsection one hereof relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the North Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement one rood four and eight-tenths perches, more or less, being Lot 18 of Allotment 83 of Section 16, Suburbs of Auckland.

(6) The land to which paragraph (d) of subsection one hereof relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the North Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement two hundred and forty-six acres, more or less, being Allotment 63, Parish of Karangahape.

(7) The land to which subsection two hereof relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the North Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement one acre three roods two perches, more or less, being Allotment 22A of Section 12, Suburbs of Auckland.

(1) Subsection two of section one hundred and two of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1922, is hereby amended by repealing paragraph (b) thereof as amended by paragraph (b) of section 58 of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1924, and substituting the following paragraph:—

(2) Paragraph (b) of section fifty-eight of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1924, is hereby consequentially repealed.

Whereas on the twenty-sixth day of April, nineteen hundred and six, a timber-floating license was granted under the Timber-floating Act 1884 [Repealed], to Frank Coulthard, of Mercer, to use the course of the Waikato River and the tributaries thereof north of the Atiamuri Bridge to the sea for the term of three years from the twenty-sixth day of April, nineteen hundred and six: And whereas the said license was eventually transferred to the Roose Shipping Company (Limited), a duly incorporated company having its registered office at Mercer: And whereas the said license was renewed from year to year until the twenty-sixth day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-five: And whereas the aforesaid license has lapsed through the failure of the licensee to apply for a further renewal thereof within the time prescribed in that behalf by the Timber-floating Act 1908 [Repealed]: And whereas it is deemed expedient to authorize a further renewal of the said license: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Timber-floating Act 1908 [Repealed], the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Auckland Land District is hereby empowered, subject to the approval of the Auckland Land Board, to grant a renewal of the aforesaid timber-floating license for a further period of twelve months from the twenty-sixth day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, subject to such conditions as he may think fit.

An application by the lessee of Section 8, Mangateparu Settlement, in the Auckland Land District, for a revaluation of the land comprised in his lease may, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in subsection six of section two hundred and sixteen of the Land Act 1924, be received at any time not later than the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, and dealt with under that section as if it had been received within the period fixed in that behalf by the said subsection six.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Forests Act 1921-22, the Governor-General may proclaim as a road the land hereinafter described.

(2) The land to which this section relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Auckland Land District, portion of Kaingaroa No 1 (State forest reserve), containing by admeasurement twenty-nine acres two roods thirty-seven perches, more or less, situated in Blocks IX and XIII, Kaingaroa Survey District, being a strip, one chain wide, commencing on the Galatea Road and running in a southerly direction generally parallel to and one chain to the east of the western boundary of Kaingaroa No 1 to the northern boundary of Kaingaroa No 1A: as the same is shown coloured green, marked “XY,” on the plan numbered 29/5/6, deposited in the Head Office of the State Forest Service, at Wellington.

(1) The reservation for the purposes of a railway quarry reserve over the land hereinafter described is hereby cancelled, and, subject to the next succeeding subsection, the said land is hereby declared to be a public domain subject to Part 2 of the Public Reserves and Domains Act 1908.

(2) The right of the Department of Railways to quarry and remove stone at any time from such portion of the said land as may be defined in that behalf by the Minister of Lands and the right of ingress, egress, and regress in the exercise of such right are hereby reserved.

(3) The land to which this section relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Gisborne Land District, containing by admeasurement twenty-five acres two roods, more or less, being portion of Waihirere No 1 Block, situated in Block X, Waimata Survey District.

(1) The reservation for the purpose of a quarry over the land hereinafter described and the vesting of the said land in the Corporation of the Borough of Gisborne for the purpose aforesaid are hereby cancelled, and, subject to the next succeeding subsection, the said land is hereby vested in His Majesty as a public domain subject to Part 2 of the Public Reserves and Domains Act 1908.

(2) The right of the Gisborne Borough Council to quarry and remove stone at any time from such portion of the said land as may be defined in that behalf by the Minister of Lands and the right of ingress, egress, and regress in the exercise of such right are hereby reserved.

(3) The District Land Registrar for the Gisborne Land Registration District is hereby empowered and directed to make such endorsements or memorials on the certificate of title in respect of the aforesaid land as may be necessary to give full effect to this section.

(4) The land to which this section relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Gisborne Land District, containing by admeasurement thirty acres one rood twenty-two perches, more or less, being portions of Waihirere, Waihirere No 2, and Waihirere No 3 Blocks, situated in Block X, Waimata Survey District, and being all the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 46, folio 37, in the Register-book of the District Land Registrar at Gisborne.

(1) On the issue of an Order in Council conferring on the Opotiki County Council the powers of a Harbour Board with respect to the Ohiwa Harbour the Governor-General may, by Order in Council, vest the land hereinafter described in the Corporation of the County of Opotiki in trust, without power of sale, for the purpose of a landing-place.

(2) If at any time a Harbour Board is constituted to control the Ohiwa Harbour the Governor-General may, by Order in Council, cancel the vesting of the said land in the Corporation of the County of Opotiki and vest the same in trust for the purpose of a landing-place in such Harbour Board.

(3) The land to which this section relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Gisborne Land District, containing by admeasurement nineteen acres one rood, more or less, and being Allotment 191B in the Parish of Waiotahi, situated in Block XI, Whakatane Survey District, in the Gisborne Land District.

(1) The District Land Registrar for the Land Registration District of Hawke's Bay is hereby empowered and directed, subject to a Warrant in that behalf under the hand of the Governor-General, to issue to the Corporation of the County of Hawke's Bay a certificate of title in respect of the said land.

(2) The land to which this section relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that land in the Hawke's Bay Land District, containing by admeasurement one acre, more or less, being that portion of Block 41 on the plan of the Puketapu Crown Grant District, shown as Lot 5 on the plan deposited in the Deeds Register Office at Napier as No 368, and being the land comprised in Index Volume 62, folio 317, in the said office.

(1) The Governor-General, on payment by the Wairoa Borough Council of the sum of three hundred and fifteen dollars to the Receiver of Land Revenue for the Land District of Hawke's Bay, may, by Proclamation,—

• (a) Revoke the reservation over the land described in subsection two hereof and the vesting of the said land in the Corporation of the Borough of Wairoa as an endowment, and may in like manner declare the said land to be permanently reserved for police purposes:

• (b) Revoke the reservation over the land described in subsection three hereof, and declare the said land to be vested in the Corporation of the Borough of Wairoa in trust for recreation purposes.

(2) The land to which paragraph (a) of subsection one hereof relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Hawke's Bay Land District, containing by admeasurement three acres one rood, more or less, being Section 28, Town of Clyde.

(3) The land to which paragraph (b) of subsection one hereof relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Hawke's Bay Land District, containing by admeasurement two acres one rood two perches, more or less, being Suburban Section 830, Township of Clyde.

Whereas by license dated the twenty-third day of January, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, the Matiere Sawmills Company was licensed to cut and remove from Lot 2 of Part Section 1, Block XVI, Aria Survey District, in the Taranaki Land District, certain timber standing thereon: And whereas the said Matiere Sawmills Company failed to apply before the expiry of the said license for an extension of time for the removal of such milling-timber covered by the said license as still remains uncut: And whereas it is desirable that the said license be renewed: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Land Act 1924, or the Forest Regulations thereunder, the Minister of Lands may renew the said license as from the date of expiry thereof for such term and subject to such conditions as he may think fit.

(1) The said notices of forfeiture are hereby revoked.

(2) The said leases in perpetuity are hereby revived, and shall be deemed to have continued to operate as if the said forfeiture had not taken place.

(3) The District Land Registrar for the Land Registration District of Taranaki, on being requested so to do by the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Taranaki Land District, is hereby empowered and directed to make such entries in the Register as may be necessary to give effect to the provisions of this section.

(1) The Governor-General may, by Order in Council, cancel the reservation over the said portion of the domain hereinafter described, revoke the vesting of the control thereof in the Eketahuna Borough Council, and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Cemeteries Act 1908, or in any other Act, declare such land to be permanently reserved as a site for a public cemetery, and may vest the same in Trustees for such purpose.

(2) The land to which this section relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Wellington Land District, containing ten acres one rood four perches, more or less, being Suburban Section No 183, Town of Parkville.

(1) The said notice of forfeiture is hereby revoked.

(2) The said lease in perpetuity is hereby revived, and shall be deemed to have continued to operate as if the said forfeiture had not taken place.

(3) The District Land Registrar for the Land Registration District of Wellington, on being requested so to do by the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Wellington Land District, is hereby empowered and directed to make such entries in the Register as may be necessary to give effect to the provisions of this section.

(1) Schedule 1 to the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1924, is hereby amended as from the date of the passing thereof by omitting from the item numbered 9 in that Schedule the reference to the area of the land described therein, and substituting the following reference: “42 acres and 38 perches, more or less.”

(2) The cancellation of the reservation over the area described in the item numbered 10 in the said Schedule 1 is hereby rescinded, and shall be deemed never to have had any effect.

(3) The said Schedule 1 is hereby consequentially amended by repealing the item numbered 10.

(1) The land hereinbefore referred to is hereby vested in His Majesty the King and permanently reserved as a site for a public hall, subject to the provisions of Part 1 of the Public Reserves and Domains Act 1908.

(2) The District Land Registrar for the Wellington Land Registration District is hereby empowered and directed to make such endorsements upon the aforesaid certificate of title and to take such other action as may be necessary to give effect to the foregoing provisions of this section.

(3) All other property of the said company of whatever nature shall as from the passing of this Act become the property of His Majesty the King, and shall be delivered to such person as the Minister of Lands appoints to take possession thereof.

(4) The Registrar of Companies is hereby empowered and directed to strike the said company off the Register of Companies, and it shall not be necessary for the said company to comply with any of the provisions of the Companies Act 1908, with regard to the dissolution or winding up of companies.

Whereas the Tongariro Timber Company (Limited) (hereinafter called the said company) has under and in pursuance of the provisions of section thirty-seven of the Maori Land Laws Amendment Act 1908 [Repealed], certain rights under agreements with the Aotea District Maori Land Board with respect to the lands described in such agreements and the timber thereon, and is under obligations to the said Board (inter alia) to construct within a certain period a railway (hereinafter called the private railway) from Kakahi Railway-station on the North Island Main Trunk Railway: And whereas by Order in Council published in the Gazette of the twenty-seventh day of August, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, the period within which the said company is bound to complete the construction of the private railway is extended for a total period of seven years from the first day of January, nineteen hundred and twenty-five: And whereas by memorandum of agreement (hereinafter referred to as the said agreement) bearing date the first day of September, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, the Minister of Railways did thereby grant to the said company the right of connecting the private railway with the Government railway at Kakahi Railway-station aforesaid: And whereas by deed of lease (hereinafter referred to as the said lease) bearing date the first day of September, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, His Majesty the King, acting through the Minister of Railways, did thereby lease to the said company a portion of the railway land at Kakahi Railway-station aforesaid: And whereas it is desirable that the said agreement and the said lease should be validated: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Minister of Railways is hereby empowered, and shall be deemed always to have been empowered, to enter into the said agreement and, for and on behalf of His Majesty the King, to grant the said lease, and the said agreement and the said lease shall have effect according to the tenor thereof.

(1) Notwithstanding anything in the Forests Act 1921-22, the Governor-General may, by Proclamation, proclaim as a road the lands hereinafter described.

(2) The lands to which the last preceding subsection applies are particularly described as follows:—

All those areas in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement four acres and twenty-seven perches, being portions of Sections 402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 407, 409, 410, and 412, Block II, Akatarawa Survey District; as shown on plan marked L and S 1910/325, and deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured blue.

(1) The Governor-General may, by Proclamation, close the said road or road-line and cancel the reservation over the said two road reserves, and thereupon the area comprised therein shall not henceforth be deemed to form any part of any public highway.

(2) Upon the issue of such Proclamation the said lands shall vest in fee-simple in the owners named in Part 1 of Schedule 2 to this Act and in the Corporation to the extent mentioned in that Part; and in respect of each owner and of the Corporation such vesting in every of the said cases shall be free of all claims by the owner or owners of the said road-line and road reserves, and free also of all rights of way or other rights over the said road-line and road reserves on the part of purchasers of, or any persons interested in, any lands shown on the said deposited plan No 286.

(3) Upon the issue of the Proclamation aforesaid the lands specified in Part 2 of the said Schedule 2 to this Act and shown on the said plan shall become and be vested in the Corporation in fee-simple, together with rights of way for all purposes over the lands shown as modes of access on the said plan, such rights of way to be appurtenant to the lands to which they afford access as shown on the said plan.

(4) Any lands vested in the Corporation by virtue of this section shall be held by it for tree-planting purposes, and the lands so vested in each of the said owners respectively shall in each case be held by him upon, for, and subject to the same trusts, purposes, encumbrances, and tenancies (if any) as immediately before the coming into operation of this Act affected the lands to be given by him to the Corporation and the lands over which rights of way are to be given by him to the Corporation, as the case may be.

(5) On the vesting of such lands in the Corporation the Council shall erect sufficient fences within the meaning of the Fencing Act 1908, on the north-east and south-east boundaries of the said land hatched yellow, and on the northerly and easterly boundaries of the land hatched blue, and on the north-west boundary (measuring seven hundred and seventy-two links and three-tenths of a link) of the said land hatched red, on the said plan.

(6) No stamp duties shall be payable in respect of any vesting made by this section.

(7) The said Council and all or any of the said owners may execute and do any deeds and things necessary to more fully carry into effect the provisions of this section according to the true intent thereof.

(8) The District Land Registrar for the Wellington Land Registration District, or the Registrar of Deeds for the Wellington Deeds Registration District, as the case may be, shall make all such entries in his Register as shall be necessary to duly record the vestings of lands and rights of way made by this section and the effect generally of this section as regards the title to or the instruments of title in respect of any hereditaments affected thereby.

(1) The vesting in the Waverley Town Board as a site for a war memorial of the land described in subsection two hereof and the reservation over the said land for that purpose are hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby declared to be a reserve set apart as a site for a telegraph-station and post-office.

(2) The land to which the last preceding subsection relates is more particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement three and ninety-seven hundredths perches, more or less, being part of Section 144, Township of Waverley, and bounded as follows: commencing at a point on the eastern boundary of Section 143, Township of Waverley, 125 links distant from the south-eastern corner of the said section; thence by right lines towards the south, east, and north by other part of Section 144, for distances of 92 links, 27 links, and 92 links respectively; and towards the west by the aforesaid Section 143, for a distance of 27 links, to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid linkages a little more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked 247/44, deposited in the Wellington District Office, Department of Lands and Survey, and thereon coloured green.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section thirty-seven of the Public Reserves and Domains Act 1908, the Ashhurst Domain Board may pay to the Trustees of the Ashhurst Public Cemetery out of the funds accrued or hereafter accruing to the credit of the Ashhurst Domain a sum not exceeding three hundred dollars as a contribution towards the erection of a cottage on the Ashhurst Public Cemetery Reserve.

Notwithstanding anything in section thirty-seven of the Public Reserves and Domains Act 1908, it shall be lawful for the Levin Borough Council in its capacity as the Levin Park Domain Board to expend on the management, administration, and improvement of the Levin Park Domain such portions of the revenue received by it in its capacity as the Levin Domain Board in respect of the Levin Domain as the Minister of Lands may from time to time approve.

(1) The reservation for the purpose of a ferry reserve over the aforesaid Section 119 is hereby cancelled.

(2) 

• (a) On payment by the Marlborough County Council of such price (if any) as may be agreed upon between the Minister of Lands and the said Council the Governor-General may, by Order in Council, vest in the Corporation of the said county, for stone-crushing and storage purposes and for afforestation purposes, the lands described in subsection five hereof, subject to such terms and conditions as may be prescribed or imposed in such Order.

• (b) On the making of such Order in Council the said Council may remove to the land thereby vested in the said Corporation the cottage standing on Section 1 of 119, Block IX, Cloudy Bay Survey District.

(3) On payment by the Wairau River Board of such price (if any) as may be agreed upon between the Minister of Lands and the said Board the Governor-General may, by Order in Council, vest in the said Board, for river protection purposes and afforestation purposes, the lands described in subsection six hereof, subject to such terms and conditions as may be prescribed or imposed in such Order.

(4) If at any time the said Council or the said River Board fails to comply to the satisfaction of the Minister of Lands with any of the terms or conditions so prescribed or imposed, the Governor-General may, by Order in Council, revoke the vesting in the said Corporation or in the said River Board, as the case may be, of any lands vested pursuant to this section, and thereupon the said lands shall revert to His Majesty as Crown land available for disposal under the Land Act 1908.

(5) The lands to which subsection two hereof relates are particularly described as follows:—

Firstly, all that area in the Marlborough Land District, containing by admeasurement twenty-four acres one rood, being Section 3 of 119, Wairau West, Block IX, Cloudy Bay Survey District, and bounded as follows: towards the north by a public road, 2257.6 links; towards the east by Section 116, Wairau West, 1307.5 links; towards the south by Section 4 of 119, Wairau West; and towards the west by a public road, 850.1 links: be all the aforesaid measurements more or less.

Secondly, all that area in the said district, containing by admeasurement thirty-three acres, more or less, being Section 3, Block IX, Cloudy Bay Survey District, and bounded as follows: towards the north-west by a public road along the present south bank of the Wairau River; towards the south-east by the public road along the original south bank of the Wairau River; and towards the south-west by the main road from Blenheim to Nelson: as the same are delineated on the plan marked L and S 6/9/28, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered green.

(6) The lands to which subsection three hereof relates are particularly described as follows:—

Firstly, all that area in the Marlborough Land District, containing by admeasurement forty-seven acres, more or less, being Section 1 of 119, Wairau West, Block IX, Cloudy Bay Survey District, and bounded as follows: towards the north by a public road along the original south bank of the Wairau River; towards the east by the main road, Blenheim to Nelson, 1580.9 links; towards the south partly by a public road, 1370 links, and partly by Section 4 of 119, Wairau West; and towards the west and north-west partly by a public road along the original south bank of the Wairau River, and partly by Section 5 of 119: be all the aforesaid measurements more or less.

Secondly, all that area in the said district, containing by admeasurement seven acres three roods, more or less, being Section 2 of 119, Wairau West, Block IX, Cloudy Bay Survey District, and bounded as follows: towards the north and east by public roads, 1300 links and 872.2 links respectively; and towards the south and west by Section 4 of 119, Wairau West: be all the aforesaid measurements more or less.

Thirdly, all that area in the said survey district, containing by admeasurement fifteen acres two roods, more or less, being Section 4, Block IX, Cloudy Bay Survey District, and bounded as follows: towards the north-east by a public road, 1800 links; towards the south by a public road along the original south bank of the Wairau River; and towards the west and north-west by a public road along the present bank of the Wairau River.

As the same are delineated on the plan marked L and S 6/9/28, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

Whereas in pursuance of the provisions of section one hundred and twenty-two of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1915, Sections 1156, 1170, and 1171 of the Town of Picton, containing nine acres two roods fifteen perches, more or less (hereinafter referred to as the reserve), were vested in the Corporation of the Picton Borough (hereinafter referred to as the Corporation) to be held and used exclusively as a recreation reserve subject to the provisions of the Public Reserves and Domains Act 1908: And whereas in pursuance of section eighty-six of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1922, part of the said reserve was released from the trusts and uses as a recreation reserve and vested in the Corporation in trust for the construction and erection thereon of hot salt-water baths and municipal buildings: And whereas the balance of the said reserve now comprises an area of eight acres three roods thirty-eight perches, more or less, in respect of which a certificate of title has been issued by the District Land Registrar at Blenheim, and is entered in Register-book, Volume 26, folio 4, Marlborough Registry (hereinafter referred to as the said land): And whereas the said land is not required for the purpose of a recreation reserve: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The reservation for the purpose of a recreation reserve over the said land is hereby cancelled, and the said land shall be and the same is hereby vested in the Corporation in fee-simple freed and discharged from the trusts and uses affecting the same.

Whereas by a Proclamation published in the Gazette of the twenty-eighth day of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, the Wairau and Pelorus and Queen Charlotte Sound Mining Districts were abolished, and in lieu thereof that portion of New Zealand particularly described in the Schedule to that Proclamation was constituted a mining district under the name of the Marlborough Mining Districts: And whereas further Proclamations defining the said mining district were published successively in the Gazette of the twenty-second day of November, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, the twenty-seventh day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and the ninth day of May, nineteen hundred and one: And whereas the Marlborough Land Board has granted rights, titles, and interests in, on, and over lands within the said mining districts, concerning which doubts have arisen as to whether in every case the said Land Board has disposed of the said lands without first referring the proposed disposition thereof to the Warden and receiving his report thereon in accordance with the provision in that behalf contained in section thirty-seven of the Mining Act 1908: And whereas it is deemed expedient to validate all the said grants, titles, or interests which may have been made, granted, or created irregularly as aforesaid: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

All grants, rights, titles, or interests made, created, or issued by the Marlborough Land Board as aforesaid since the ninth day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, within the said Marlborough Mining Districts without receiving the report thereon of the Warden, where necessary, in accordance with the provisions of section thirty-seven of the Mining Act 1908, or the corresponding provisions of any former Mining Act, and all transactions connected therewith, are hereby declared to have been as validly made, created, issued, or transacted as if the report of the Warden had in every such case been first received.

(1) The land hereinafter described (together with the wharves thereon) is hereby vested in the Corporation of the Borough of Picton freed and discharged from all existing reservations over the same, but subject to the provisions of subsections two and three of this section.

(2) The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council,—

• (a) Limit and define the powers and duties of the Picton Borough Council with respect to the control and management of any such wharf; and

• (b) Prescribe what dues and rates may be taken by the Council for the use of such wharf; and

• (c) Prescribe the class or classes of vessels that may lawfully be permitted by the Council to use such wharf;

and may in like manner amend or revoke any such Order.

(3) If at any time the Council fails to comply to the satisfaction of the Minister of Railways with any of the provisions of any such Order in Council the Governor-General may, by Order in Council, revoke the vesting in the said Corporation of the said land and wharves, and thereupon the said land and wharves shall revert to His Majesty.

(4) The land to which this section relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that parcel of land in the Marlborough Land District, containing by admeasurement five acres and eleven perches, more or less, being portion of Railway Reserve at Picton, and being more particularly delineated on plan marked WR 36415, deposited in the office of the Minister of Railways, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

(5) This section is hereby declared to be a special Act within the meaning of section 144 of the Harbours Act 1923.

The Minister of Lands, on the recommendation of the Land Board of the Westland Land District, and on being satisfied that it would be reasonable and equitable so to do, may remit wholly or in part any amount owing by the West Coast Farmers' Lime-producing Company (Limited) as on the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, in respect of royalty on lime payable in terms of the said company's lease No 1729 granted under the Land Act 1908, over one hundred and eight acres in Block II, Totara Survey District.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Mining Act 1908, or in any other Act, the Minister of Mines may make application to the Warden of the Westland Mining District for, and the Warden shall, upon receipt of such application and without requiring the Minister to observe any of the requirements of the Mining Act 1908, relating to applications for mining privileges, grant to the Minister, a license under that Act for each of the privileges specified in Schedule 3 to this Act.

(2) Every such license shall supersede the corresponding privilege specified in Schedule 3 hereto, and shall confer the same priority of rights and be subject to the same encumbrances, liens, and interests (if any) as the corresponding privilege conferred and was subject to. All such priorities, encumbrances, liens, and interests shall be specified in or endorsed on such license, and be registered, and such specification or endorsement shall be final and conclusive for all purposes:

Provided that in addition to the purpose of the corresponding privilege the license shall, where such privilege is in respect of water, confer a right to use for electric or other power purposes the water the subject-matter of the license.

(3) All references to any privilege as aforesaid in any document issued prior to the grant of a license under this section shall be deemed to be references to such license and the mining privilege conferred thereby.

(4) On the grant of any license under this section the corresponding privilege specified in Schedule 3 hereto shall be deemed to be cancelled, and the Warden shall cause an entry to that effect to be made in the appropriate register, if any.

(5) A notice of the grant of a license under this section and the cancellation of the corresponding privilege specified in Schedule 3 hereto shall be published in the Gazette by the Minister of Mines.

(1) The Governor-General may, by Order in Council, dissolve the Greymouth High School Board as from a date set out in the Order, and the property, rights, and liabilities of the Board so dissolved shall thereupon vest in and become the property, rights, and liabilities of the Greymouth Technical School Board.

(2) The property so vested in the Greymouth Technical School Board may be utilized by the Board for such lawful purposes in connection with the school under its control and the administration thereof as the Minister of Education may approve.

(3) From the date of the dissolution of the Greymouth High School Board as aforesaid the Greymouth Technical High School shall for the purposes of the application of revenues from education reserves and endowments pursuant to section four of the Education Reserves Amendment Act 1924 [Repealed], be deemed to be a secondary school, and the Greymouth Technical School Board shall be deemed to be the governing body thereof. In its application of any moneys received pursuant to this subsection the Board shall be subject to the same requirements and conditions, with the necessary modifications, as the governing body of a secondary school would be.

(4) All payments heretofore made to the Greymouth High School Board and to the Hokitika High School Board from revenues accruing from reserves and endowments in the Westland Provincial District and purporting to be made pursuant to the provisions of the Greymouth High School Act 1883 [Repealed], the Hokitika High School Act 1883 see now the Westland High School Act 1883, and the Education Lands Act 1949, shall be deemed to have been validly made pursuant to those Acts.

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the above-mentioned enactment, the land hereinafter described is hereby vested in the Education Board of the District of Canterbury as a site for a public school.

(2) The land to which the last preceding subsection relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement two roods twenty and one-tenth perches, more or less, being part of Lot 8 of the subdivision of Lyttelton Prison Reserve, formerly Town Section 172, and parts of Town Sections 171, 174, 175, and 175A, situated in the Borough of Lyttelton, and bounded as follows: towards the north-west by Oxford Street, 131.55 links; towards the north-east by Lot 6 of the said subdivision, 255.25 links; again towards the north-west by Lots 6, 5, and 4, 127.10 and 6.2 links; and again towards the north-east, 96.8 links; towards the east by St David Street, 108.7 and 184.86 links; towards the south by Reserve 4110, 383.13 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S 6/7/40, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

(1) The reservation for the purposes of a school-site over the land hereinafter described is hereby cancelled, and shall be deemed to have been so cancelled on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and five, and the said land shall for all purposes be deemed to have become on that date settlement land subject to the provisions of the Land for Settlements Consolidation Act 1900, and all grants, titles, or interests made, granted, or created in respect of the said land since that date are hereby validated.

(2) The land to which this section relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement five acres, more or less, being Reserve 3493, Block III, Waipara Survey District.

Whereas by notice in the Gazette of the eighth day of October, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, Section 3094, Block IV, Oxford Survey District, containing eleven acres, was permanently reserved as a public recreation-ground: And whereas by an Order in Council published in the Gazette of the twenty-ninth day of the said month and year the said reserve was brought under the operation of and declared to be subject to the provisions of the Public Domains Act 1881: And whereas by a notice in the Gazette of the nineteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, Section 3231 as therein described as having an area of sixty-three acres was permanently reserved as a public recreation-ground: And whereas by Order in Council published in the Gazette of the fifteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, the said Section 3231 was brought under the operation of and declared to be subject to the provisions of the Reserves Act 1977: And whereas the lands comprised in the aforementioned Sections 3094 and 3231 are now known as the Ashley Gorge Domain, the control of which is vested in the Ashley Gorge Domain Board: And whereas consequent on surveys of the lands comprised in the domain and on adjustment of boundaries to conform to natural features it has been found that the area contained in the domain is much in excess of that set out in the notices aforesaid, and it is desirable to redefine the boundaries of the domain: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Ashley Gorge Domain hereinbefore referred to is hereby declared to comprise—

• (a) All that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement eleven acres, more or less, being Reserve No 3094, situated in Block IV, Oxford Survey District, and bounded as follows: towards the north by a road reserve along the south bank of the River Ashley; towards the south-east by the Ashley Gorge Road, 318 links; and towards the south generally by Rural Sections 32764 and 36590; and

• (b) All that area, containing by admeasurement four hundred and thirty-two acres, more or less, being Reserve No 3231, situated in Blocks XVI, Upper Ashley, XIII Mount Thomas, IV Oxford, and I Mairaki Survey Districts, and bounded as follows: towards the north-west generally by Rural Sections 36946 and 23738; towards the north-east generally by a road; towards the south by Rural Section 26498, a road, and the river-bank reserve along the north side of the River Ashley.

As the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S 1/496, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

Section sixty-six of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1920, is hereby amended by omitting the words “one thousand four hundred dollars” in subsection two thereof, and substituting therefor the words “one thousand six hundred dollars.”

(1) The owner of the aforesaid renewable lease may apply for a revaluation of the land comprised in the lease, and in such case the provisions of subsections one, two, three, five, seven, and eight of section two hundred and sixteen of the Land Act 1924, shall, with the necessary modifications, apply as if the application were an application for a revaluation of land under that section.

(2) If on a revaluation of land under this section the value as then determined, exclusive of the value of improvements effected by the lessee, is less than the capital value of the land on which the rent is based, the rent payable under the lease shall, as from the first day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, be proportionately reduced.

(3) On the recommendation of the Land Board of the Otago Land District the Minister of Lands may, without further appropriation than this section, remit wholly or in part any arrears of rent due in respect of the aforesaid lease on the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and twenty-five.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Land Act 1924, the Land Board of the Otago Land District may from time to time, with the approval of the Minister of Lands, sell to the Dunedin City Council (hereinafter called the Council) any area or areas of Crown land within the survey districts of Waipori and Tuapeka East which the Council may from time to time desire to purchase for water storage, afforestation, or purposes incidental thereto.

(2) The price to be paid for any land purchased by the Council under this section shall be fixed by the Minister of Lands, and such price shall be paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue within one month from the date the Land Board shall notify the Council in writing that the same has become payable.

(3) The Council shall also pay all charges for surveys and Crown-grant fees in respect of the land so purchased, in addition to the price determined pursuant to the last preceding subsection.

(4) Nothing in Part 13 of the Land Act 1924, shall apply to any land so sold to the Council.

(1) The land hereinafter described is hereby vested in the Corporation of the Borough of Oamaru in trust for the purposes of health and public recreation.

(2) The land to which this section relates is particularly described as follows: All that area in the Land District of Otago, containing by admeasurement nineteen acres and three perches, being Reserve C, Town of Oamaru.

(1) The said Cromwell Development Company (Limited) may from time to time resurvey and resubdivide the lands purchased under the said Act which are comprised in the said Sarita and Elspeth Subdivisions, and shall cause such lands to be offered for sale or for lease (with a purchasing clause) by auction or tender or contract upon the terms already approved in respect thereof by the Governor-General in Council, or any modification of such terms hereafter approved by the Governor-General in Council:

Provided that the area of any allotment offered for sale or lease hereunder shall not exceed such area as the Minister of Lands, on the recommendation of the Land Board of the Otago Land District, may approve.

(2) No person shall be entitled to acquire any land purchased by the said company under the said Act and comprised in the said Sarita Subdivision or in the said Elspeth Subdivision in excess of the area limited by and computed in accordance with the provisions of section one hundred and seven of the Land Act 1924, or any statutory modification or re-enactment thereof.

(3) The provisions of subparagraphs (iv) and (v) of paragraph (a) of the said section six of the said Act shall not hereafter apply to any lands comprised in the said Sarita and Elspeth Subdivisions.

(4) The said Sarita Subdivision to which this section applies is all that parcel of land situated in the Cromwell Survey District, being a subdivision of part of Blocks I and II of the said district, and being all the land comprised in and delineated on the plan of Sarita deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor of the Otago Land District at Dunedin, and being part of the land comprised in certificate of title, Provisional Register-book, in the Land Registry Office at Dunedin, Volume 17, folio 8.

(5) The said Elspeth Subdivision to which this section applies is all that parcel of land situated in the Cromwell Survey District, being all the freehold allotments comprised in and delineated on the plan of Elspeth deposited in the Land Registry Office at Dunedin as No 2970, and being all the land comprised in certificate of title, Register-book, in the Land Registry Office, Volume 58, folio 191, and part of the land comprised in certificate of title, Register-books, Volume 178, folio 263, and Volume 191, folio 237.

(1) An application by the lessee of any land hereinafter described for a revaluation of the land comprised in his lease may, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in subsection six of section two hundred and sixteen of the Land Act 1924, be received at any time after the commencement of the term thereof and dealt with under that section as if it had been received within the period fixed in that behalf by the said subsection six.

(2) The provisions of section fifty-six of the Land for Settlements Act 1908, may be applied to any such lessee notwithstanding that he is over twelve months in arrear with his rent; and the Minister, notwithstanding the limitation as to amount contained in paragraph (a) of that section, may, on the recommendation of the Land Board, remit the whole of the lessee's arrears of rent, or such portion thereof as he deems reasonable.

(3) The lands to which this section relates are the following lands in the Wairaki Survey District, in the Southland Land District:—

It shall be lawful for any local authority the district of which is within or partly within the Provincial District of Marlborough to contribute out of its general fund or account such a sum in any year as the local authority may think fit as a subscription to the funds of the Marlborough Progress League.

(1) The vesting in the Corporation of the Borough of Hamilton of the land described in subsection two hereof is hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby vested in the Waikato Hospital Board for an estate in fee-simple as an endowment in aid of the Board's funds, subject to a lease granted to Olaf Mortensen and registered in the Auckland Land Registry Office as No 9136.

(2) The land referred to in subsection one hereof is particularly described as follows:—

All that piece of land in the Auckland Land District, containing one acre and nineteen and six-tenths perches, more or less, being Lots 1, 2, and 3 of a subdivision into lots of Allotment 117 of the Town of Hamilton East: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the Auckland Land Registry Office as No 10890.

(3) The vesting in the Waikato Hospital Board of the land described in subsection four hereof is hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby vested in the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Hamilton for an estate in fee-simple as an endowment in aid of the borough funds.

(4) The land referred to in subsection three hereof is particularly described as follows:—

All that piece of land in the Borough of Hamilton, containing one acre one rood twenty-eight perches, being Allotment 310 of the Town of Hamilton East.

(5) The District Land Registrar for the Land Registration District of Auckland is hereby empowered and directed to issue such certificates of title or to make such endorsements on existing certificates of title as may be necessary to give full effect to the foregoing provisions of this section.

Whereas by the Main Highways Act 1922, provision is made for the declaration of main highways, in respect of which the powers of construction and reconstruction are by that Act transferred from the several local authorities concerned and are vested in the Main Highways Board: And whereas by section thirty-three of the Finance Act 1924, local authorities are empowered to raise special loans under the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, for the purpose of providing, in whole or in part, their contributions towards the cost of construction or reconstruction of any main highway: And whereas by section nine of the Main Highways Act 1922, the Main Highways Board may delegate its powers in respect of any main highway or portion of a main highway to the local authority in whose district it is situated: And whereas certain local authorities have taken proceedings to raise special loans in respect of the cost of the construction or reconstruction of main highways: And whereas doubts have arisen as to the effectiveness of the delegation by the Main Highways Board of its powers in respect of certain main highways, and also as to the validity of the proceedings taken in such cases for special loans in respect thereof: And whereas it is desired to validate all proceedings heretofore taken by local authorities to raise loans in respect of the cost of construction or reconstruction of main highways: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

No proceedings heretofore taken by any local authority to raise a loan under the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, in respect of the cost of construction or reconstruction of a main highway (whether the loan proposal was expressed to be for the purpose of providing the cost of such construction or reconstruction, or for the purpose of providing the local authority's contribution towards such cost) shall be questioned on the ground that the local authority was not authorized to borrow moneys for or in respect of the purposes expressed in the proposal.

(1) All leases granted by the Ngaruawahia Town Board over the aforesaid land since the first day of January, nineteen hundred and nine, and purporting to be granted by the said Board in pursuance of its powers as a leasing authority under the said Act are hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully granted, and the Board shall be deemed to have been a leasing authority under the said Act as from that date.

(2) The Ngaruawahia Borough Council is hereby declared to be a leasing authority within the meaning of the said Act, and shall for all purposes be deemed to have been such a leasing authority as from the eleventh day of September, nineteen hundred and twenty.

(1) All payments heretofore made by the Masterton County Council out of the said balance for the construction of new water-races for the supply of water to the Opaki Water-race District are hereby validated.

(2) The said Council may, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, or any other Act, expend so much of the remaining part of such balance as the said Council may deem expedient on the construction of new water-races for the supply of water to the Opaki Water-race District.

The Raglan County Council is hereby empowered to purchase or otherwise acquire any land within the Onewhero Riding of the County of Raglan, and to erect thereon, or on any land the control of which may be vested in it for the purpose, a public hall for the use of the inhabitants of that riding, and for such purposes to raise a special loan under the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, as if for a public work.

Whereas the Tauranga County Council in the year nineteen hundred and twenty raised a loan of ten thousand dollars from the State Advances Office under the provisions of section twenty-four of the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, for the reconstruction of the Hairini and Waitekohe Bridges in that county: And whereas the said works have been completed, and a balance of four hundred and ninety-two dollars and eighteen and one-third cents of the said loan remains unexpended: And whereas the Waitekohe Bridge was damaged by flood in the month of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, and it is now desired by the Tauranga County Council to spend such unexpended balance in repairing and strengthening the Waitekohe Bridge, instead of paying the same into the sinking fund in accordance with section seven of the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, or in any other Act, the Tauranga County Council is hereby empowered to spend the said sum of four hundred and ninety-two dollars and eighteen and one-third cents, being the unexpended balance of the said loan, in repairing and strengthening the said Waitekohe Bridge.

Whereas on the twenty-first day of January, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, the Mackenzie County Council, purporting to act under and in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, caused to be taken a poll of the ratepayers of the Fairlie Township Special-rating District in the County of Mackenzie upon a proposal to raise under that Act a special loan of eight hundred and twenty dollars upon the security of a special rate of one-thirtieth of a cent in the dollar on the capital value of all rateable property in the said special-rating district for the purpose of the purchase of plant for the Fairlie Fire Brigade: And whereas the said proposal was carried, but doubts have arisen as to the powers of the said Mackenzie County Council to raise money by way of special loan for the said purpose: And whereas it is desirable to validate the steps taken by the said Mackenzie County Council as if it had had power to raise the said loan for the purchase of the said plant: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Mackenzie County Council shall be deemed to have and always to have had power to raise the said loan for the purchase of plant for the Fairlie Fire Brigade, and all the steps taken by the Council in connection therewith and the poll hereinbefore mentioned are hereby validated, and the Council may proceed with the raising of the loan accordingly.

Whereas the Rangiora County Council was authorized by a poll of ratepayers of the county taken on the twentieth day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, pursuant to the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, to borrow by way of special loan under that Act the sum of thirty thousand dollars for the purpose of carrying out and paying for the work of electrical reticulation, erecting mains, and providing all material and things necessary or incidental to supplying the Rangiora County with electric power from Lake Coleridge: And whereas a portion of such special loan has been raised: And whereas in anticipation of the loan being authorized the said Council expended out of its General Account certain moneys for the said purpose: And whereas the said moneys have been refunded to the General Account out of the moneys so borrowed: And whereas there is no authority at law for making such refund, and it is desirable to validate the same: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, or in any other Act, the refunding of the moneys as aforesaid to its General Account, not exceeding the sum of three thousand dollars, by the Rangiora County Council is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

(1) The Raglan County Council is hereby authorized and shall be deemed to have been authorized as at the twenty-ninth day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, to sell and dispose of the land described in subsection two hereof and to convey and assure the same to the said Neil Reid.

(2) The land to which this section relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that triangular piece of land, containing three and fifteen-hundredths perches, more or less, being part Lot 8 of Section 2 of the subdivision known as Raglan East and the residue of the land comprised and described in deed of conveyance registered in the Deeds Register Office at Auckland under No 218016 not taken for the purpose of a public road by Proclamation under section eleven of the Land Act 1908, registered in the said office under No 4059: bounded on the north by the said proclaimed road, 76.40 links; on the south-east by a road known as Rose Street, 63.20 links; and on the south-west by part Lot 9 of said subdivision, 42.32 links.

(3) The proceeds of such sale shall be paid to the credit of the Whaingaroa Harbour Wharf Construction Account.

Whereas the Waimairi County Council, pursuant to the provisions of the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, was duly authorized to raise a special loan of seven thousand eight hundred dollars secured by a special rate of one and fifty-nine ninety-sixths of a cent over a special-rating area comprising Rural Section 56, Block X, Christchurch Survey District (hereinafter called the Peerswick Channelling Loan Area), for the purpose of channelling certain roads and streets therein: And whereas the said Council has raised six thousand dollars of the said sum from the State Advances Superintendent: And whereas it is found expedient not to proceed with the channelling of the roads or streets in the area hereinafter described within the Peerswick Channelling Loan Area, and it is desirable to exclude that area from the said Peerswick Channelling Loan Area: And whereas the State Advances Superintendent has agreed to the said exclusion: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, or any other Act, the area of land bounded by a line running along the middle of Yaldhurst Road on the west, Peer Street on the south, Godley Street on the east, and Wakefield Street on the north within the County of Waimairi is hereby excluded from the Peerswick Channelling Loan Area, and the lands comprised in the area so excluded are hereby declared to be free from any liability in respect of the said special rate, which shall for all purposes be deemed to have been made only in respect of the lands remaining within the Peerswick Channelling Loan Area as now constituted.

(1) The Waimate County Council is hereby authorized to make such transfers and adjustments between the various riding accounts as shall make the balance in each account as follows: Upper Pareora Riding Account, credit two thousand eight hundred and twenty-four dollars and ninety-seven and one-half cents; Otaio Riding Account, credit two thousand and thirty dollars and seventy-five cents; North Waihao Riding Account, credit one thousand five hundred and forty-eight dollars and thirty-eight and one-third cents; Hakataramea Riding Account, credit four hundred and eighty-two dollars and eighty-eight and one-third cents; Deep Creek Riding Account, debit one three thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight dollars and sixty-four and one-sixth cents; Lower Pareora Riding Account, debit six hundred and eighty-two dollars and forty-three and one-third cents; Makikihi Riding Account, debit fifty-nine dollars and ninety-one and two-thirds cents.

(2) The balance in each account as set out in the last preceding subsection shall be deemed to be the balance of the account as at the first day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-five.

(3) For the purpose of extinguishing the debit balance appearing in the accounts of the ridings of Deep Creek, Lower Pareora, and Makikihi the Waimate County Council shall in each year, commencing with the year beginning on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, until the said debit is extinguished, apply from the amount apportioned to each of the said ridings in terms of section one hundred and thirty-one of the Counties Act 1920, a sum equal to one-tenth of the debit balance in the account of that riding as at the said first day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, and the amount available for expenditure in works in that riding shall be reduced accordingly.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Counties Act 1920, or any other Act, it shall be and be deemed to have been lawful for the Whakatane County Council to limit the general rate in the said Galatea district for the year ending on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, to five-sixths of a cent in the dollar on the unimproved value over all rateable property in the said Galatea district, notwithstanding that a rate of a greater amount than the said five-sixths of a cent is levied over other portions of the ridings in which the said Galatea district is situated.

(2) The said Council shall, by resolution, particularly define the boundaries of the said district for the purposes of this section.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act, the Manukau County Council may, by resolution, make and levy a special rate over all rateable property within the area formerly comprising the said road district of such amount as will annually produce a sufficient sum to make the payments hereinafter mentioned.

(2) Such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate, and may be levied from year to year without further proceeding by the said Council until the moneys due and owing under the said mortgage are fully paid off.

(3) The Council shall pay out of the proceeds of such special rate all interest, principal, and other charges properly payable by it in respect of the said East Tamaki Hall Loan.

(4) The Council may out of the proceeds of such special rate repay to the Papatoetoe Riding Account all moneys properly paid out of the said account in respect of the said East Tamaki Hall Loan since the date on which the said road district was merged in the said Manukau County.

Whereas on the nineteenth day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, the Hutt County Council submitted to a poll of the ratepayers of the Hutt County a proposal to raise a special loan of ninety thousand dollars, under the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, for the following purposes, namely: (1) To provide the Council's contribution under the Main Highways Act 1922, towards the construction or reconstruction of the main highways in the County of Hutt; (2) to provide the Council's contribution under the Wellington City and Suburban Highways Construction and Hutt Road Amendment Act 1924 [Repealed], towards the widening of the Day's Bay Road, being a main road in the County of Hutt; (3) to provide the necessary plant and machinery for carrying out the said works: And whereas the proposals submitted as aforesaid were duly carried, and a special loan was raised by the Hutt County Council accordingly: And whereas, having regard to the terms of the Acts referred to in the aforesaid proposals, doubts have arisen as to the authority of the said Council to borrow moneys for the purposes as expressed in the said proposals, and it is desired accordingly to validate the raising of the loan and all proceedings incident thereto: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

All proceedings taken by the Hutt County Council in respect of the hereinbefore-recited proposals shall be deemed to have been validly taken, and the loan to which such proceedings related shall be deemed to have been duly authorized and raised, and the special rate made and levied for the purpose of securing such special loan shall be deemed to have been validly made and levied.

(1) The Hokianga County Council may, with the prior consent of the Minister of Agriculture, and upon such terms as he may determine, purchase any existing cattle-dips in its district, and the land on which any such dips are constructed, and may make by-laws regulating the use thereof and prescribing such fees and charges for such use as it may think fit.

(2) For the purpose of purchasing any such dips the Council is hereby empowered to raise a special loan under the provisions of the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, by special order, and without taking the steps described in sections eight to twelve thereof.

(1) The Bay of Islands County Council may, with the prior consent of the Minister of Agriculture, and upon such terms as he may determine, purchase any existing cattle-dips in its district, and the land on which any such dips are constructed, and may make by-laws regulating the use thereof and prescribing such fees and charges for such use as it may think fit.

(2) For the purpose of purchasing any such dips the Council is hereby empowered to raise a special loan under the provisions of the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, by special order, and without taking the steps described in sections eight to twelve thereof.

Notwithstanding any limitation imposed by section one hundred and five of the Municipal Corporations Act 1920, the Christchurch City Council, the Dunedin City Council, and the Invercargill Borough Council shall each be deemed to have been empowered to pay the full amount of the actual reasonable travelling-expenses incurred by its representatives in attending the Conference of the Municipal Association of New Zealand held at Auckland on the twenty-third and twenty-fourth days of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, and the meetings of the executive committee of that association held during the financial year ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-five.

Whereas the Picton Borough Council raised three special loans for drainage purposes for that part of its borough known as The No 2 Special Drainage Area—namely, a loan of twenty thousand dollars, being all that could be raised of a loan of twenty-four thousand dollars authorized by a poll of the ratepayers of the said No 2 Special Drainage District taken on the twenty-fourth day of June, nineteen hundred and twenty, a loan of eleven thousand dollars authorized by a poll of the said ratepayers taken on the twenty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, and a loan of nine thousand dollars authorized by a poll of the said ratepayers taken on the tenth day of May, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, the said three loans amounting in all to the sum of forty thousand dollars: And whereas the said sum has been found to be insufficient to complete the works in respect of which it was borrowed: And whereas the said Council has power, pursuant to section eighteen of the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, to borrow in respect of the last-mentioned of such loans a further sum of nine hundred dollars, but that sum being insufficient for the purpose of completing the works, the Council, instead of exercising such power, expended out of its General Account for such purpose the sum of three thousand one hundred dollars: And whereas it is expedient to authorize the said Council to borrow by way of special loan under the Local Bodies Loans Act 1956, a sum sufficient to recoup its General Account in respect of such expenditure: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, the Picton Borough Council may, by way of special loan under that Act, borrow, on the security of a special rate over the lands comprised in the No 2 Special Drainage Area aforesaid, a sum not exceeding three thousand one hundred dollars, and pay the same into its General Account for the purposes of that account.

(1) The sale by the Waimate Borough Council to Richard Thomas Hall White, of Waimate, painter, for the sum of four thousand and sixty dollars, of the land comprised in Reserve 1269 (in red), vested in the Corporation of the Borough of Waimate under the Public Reserves and Domains Act 1908, and containing one rood thirty-nine perches, is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

(2) The District Land Registrar for the Land Registration District of Canterbury, on presentation to him of a memorandum of transfer of the said land from the said Corporation to the said Richard Thomas Hall White, shall register the same, and the said land shall thereupon vest in the said Richard Thomas Hall White for an estate in fee-simple freed and discharged from the existing reservation over it under the said Reserves Act 1977.

(3) All moneys received by the said Council from the sale of the said land shall be applied in the purchase of other land to be held by the said Corporation as a reserve for the same purposes as affected the said land.

The expenditure by the Napier Borough Council during the year nineteen hundred and twenty-four of the sum of eight hundred and six dollars and thirty-seven and a half-cents in respect of the celebration of the jubilee of the Borough of Napier and the publication of a Jubilee Year-book is hereby validated.

(1) The conditions governing the change-over hereinbefore referred to, and the allocation between the licensee and consumers of the cost of adjusting, altering, or replacing installations consequent on such change-over, as set out in clause thirteen of the conditions in the schedule to the said license shall be valid and binding on the licensee and every consumer.

(2) The reference of any dispute to the Board of Appeal as provided by the said clause thirteen shall be deemed to be a submission to arbitration under the provisions of the Arbitration Act 1996, or any statutory modification thereof, and the Board of Appeal shall have all the powers vested in arbitrators appointed under the provisions of that Act. In the event of the members of the Board of Appeal not being unanimous in their decision on any matter referred to them, the decision of a majority of the members thereof shall be the decision of the Board of Appeal.

Whereas under the provisions of section two of the Public Works Amendment Act 1911 [Repealed], a license relating to the use of electric lines was issued to the Napier Borough Council, and was published in the Gazette of the ninth day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty-five: And whereas in terms of the license a change from the Council's present system of supplying electrical energy is necessary, and conditions have been inserted in the license governing the change-over and allocating between the licensee and consumers the cost of adjusting, altering, or replacing installations consequent thereon: And whereas it is desirable to validate the insertion thereof in the license and to make them binding on the parties concerned: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The conditions governing the change-over hereinbefore referred to, and the allocation between the licensee and consumers of the cost of adjusting, altering, or replacing installations consequent on such change-over, and for the reference to a Board of Appeal of disputes arising between the licensee and a consumer, as set out in clause three of the conditions in the schedule to the said license shall be valid and binding on the licensee and every consumer.

The expenditure by the Masterton Borough Council during the financial year ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, of the sum of two hundred and fifty-four dollars and fifty-six cents in excess of the limit of unauthorized expenditure allowed the said Council by section one hundred and twenty-one of the Public Revenues Act 1910, is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

In any case where any lessee under any lease granted by the Wellington City Council has failed, or shall hereafter fail, to give any notice that is a condition precedent to the making of any valuation, or to any right of renewal of lease, the said Council may by resolution extend the time for giving such notice, subject in every case to all such terms and conditions as the said Council shall in its absolute discretion think fit to impose.

Whereas that piece of land containing thirty-two and four-tenths perches, and being Lot 4, Block V, on the plan of the Township of Enwood deposited in the Land Registry Office at Invercargill, is vested in the Corporation of the Borough of Invercargill in trust to be held and used as a site for an athenæum and reading-room, but is not required for such purposes: And whereas that piece of land containing two roods two perches, and being Section 10, Block VI, Town of North Invercargill, is vested in the said Corporation in trust as a site for municipal buildings, but is not required for such purpose: And whereas it is desired to change the purposes for which the said lands are held to that of endowments for the benefit of the Borough of Invercargill: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The respective reservations over the said pieces of land are hereby cancelled, and the said lands are hereby declared to be vested in the Corporation of the Borough of Invercargill as endowments for the benefit of the Borough of Invercargill freed and discharged from all trusts now affecting them.

(1) It shall be lawful for the Council to sell, either for cash or upon terms, the said Lot 1, and to apply the proceeds therefrom in or towards the repayment of any loan-moneys raised in connection with the acquisition of the said lands, and, if there be any surplus, to apply the same in the improvement of the said Lot 2 as a pleasure-ground.

(2) The said Council shall hold and retain Lot 2 for the use and enjoyment of the public as a pleasure-ground.

(3) The said Council is hereby empowered to exchange the said Lot 3 for the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 149, folio 190, Wellington Land Registry, being a reserve for defence purposes vested in His Majesty the King, and the Minister of Defence, on behalf of His Majesty, is hereby empowered to make such exchange, with or without equality of exchange.

(4) Upon an agreement being come to pursuant to the last preceding subsection the said Council shall transfer the said Lot 3 to His Majesty, and the land comprised therein shall thereupon be deemed to be permanently reserved for defence purposes; and the Governor-General shall, on such transfer being effected, by Warrant under his hand, cancel the existing reservation over the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 149, folio 190, Wellington Land Registry, and declare the same to be vested in the Corporation of the Borough of Lower Hutt in trust for a children's playground.

(5) The District Land Registrar for the Land Registration District of Wellington is hereby empowered to issue such certificates of title or to make such endorsements on existing certificates of title as may be necessary to give full effect to the foregoing provisions of this section.

The loan-moneys authorized by a poll of ratepayers of the City of Wellington taken by the Wellington City Council on the fifteenth day of September, nineteen hundred and twenty, to be expended for the purposes of a new electric-power station at Evans Bay, in the City of Wellington, shall be and as from the date of the raising of the loan be deemed to have been applicable not only for the purposes of a new electric-power station, but also for the purposes of providing converting plant at Evans Bay and Jervois Quay in the said city, new substations for lighting supply and underground mains at Evans Bay, and high-tension mains and switch-gear to connect with Government supply transformers, and of paying the cost of shifting existing plant to Evans Bay.

Notwithstanding anything in the Municipal Corporations Act 1920, it shall be lawful for the Mount Eden Borough Council to make and levy water rates or charges in respect both of the ordinary as well as of any extraordinary supply according to the quantity of water consumed by any person receiving the same as measured by meter, at such rates or charges as may from time to time be fixed by any by-law of the Council in that behalf or as may be agreed on with any such person, and all water rates or charges so payable shall be deemed to be separate rates, and may be recovered accordingly.

Whereas the Otaki Borough Council incurred certain liabilities under a contract for the supply of necessary plant and material for the installation and completion of its waterworks scheme to an amount not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of twenty-six thousand six hundred and forty-five dollars and twenty-one and two-thirds cents: And whereas it is expedient to empower the said Council to pay interest as hereinafter provided on the several amounts comprised within the aforesaid sum from the date each such amount became payable until it was actually paid: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Otaki Borough Council is hereby empowered out of its District Fund Account to pay one thousand and fifteen dollars and one and two-thirds cents as interest on the several amounts comprised within the aforesaid sum of twenty-six thousand six hundred and forty-five dollars and twenty-one and two-thirds cents for the periods elapsing between the due and the actual dates of payment of the said amounts.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Reserves Act 1977, or any other Act, the disposal by the Levin Borough Council to the Wellington Diocesan Board of Trustees of the land hereinafter described is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

(2) The District Land Registrar for the Land Registration District of Wellington is hereby empowered and directed, on presentation to him of the aforesaid memorandum of transfer, to make such endorsements on the certificate of title in respect of the said land, or to cancel such certificate and issue such further certificate of title, as may be necessary to give effect to the provisions of this section.

(3) The land to which this section relates is more particularly described as follows:—

All that piece of land, situate in the Wellington Land District, containing one rood thirty-four perches, more or less, being Section 2 of Block XV on the plan of the Township of Levin, and being part of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 190, folio 41, Wellington Registry.

Whereas the Taihape Borough Council incurred certain liabilities under a contract for the supply at different times of necessary plant and material for the installation and completion of its waterworks scheme to an amount not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of forty thousand five hundred and forty-one dollars and five-sixths of a cent: And whereas it is expedient to empower the said Council to pay interest as hereinafter provided on the several amounts comprised within the aforesaid sum from the date each such amount became payable until it was actually paid: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Taihape Borough Council is hereby empowered to pay out of the credit balance in its Water Gravitation Loan Account, so far as the same will suffice, and otherwise from its District Fund Account the sum of nine hundred and eighty-five dollars and sixteen and two-thirds cents as interest on the several amounts comprised within the aforesaid sum of forty thousand five hundred and forty dollars and five-sixths of a cent for the periods elapsing between the due and the actual dates of payment of the said amounts.

(1) The trusts constituted by the aforesaid deed of conveyance are hereby revoked as from the passing of this Act, and the said land shall be held by the said Corporation freed and discharged from such trusts.

(2) The land to which this section relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that parcel of land in the Provincial District of Otago, situated in the Town District, being part of section numbered 17, Block VI, on the map of the said district, and numbered as Allotments 18 and 18A on a plan of subdivision of, inter alia, the said Section 17, called the Township of St Andrew's, signed by one John Anderson, and deposited in the office of the Registrar of Deeds at Dunedin - bounded towards the north-west by Allotments 17 and 17A, 59.4 feet; towards the north-east by Allotment 16, 99 feet; towards the south-east by Maria Street, 59.4 feet; and towards the south-west by College Street, 99 feet—and being all the land comprised in the said deed of conveyance.

Whereas one James Ward, lately residing in Hawford Street, in the City of Christchurch, was accidentally killed on the second day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, by coming into contact with overhead electric wires belonging to the Christchurch Municipal Electricity Department, the said wires having been brought to earth by the fall of a tree during a violent storm: And whereas the said James Ward left him surviving his widow, Isabella Ward, and three infant children, who by reason of his death were left unprovided-for: And whereas the City Council of Christchurch has by resolution stated its desire and intention to set aside out of the District Fund and pay to Trustees to be nominated by the Council a sum of two thousand dollars to be held by such Trustees upon such trusts for the benefit of the said Isabella Ward and the said infant children of the said James Ward as the said Trustees shall, with the approval of the said Council, by deed declare: And whereas it is doubtful whether there is any statutory authority for payment as aforesaid of the said sum out of the District Fund of the City of Christchurch: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Christchurch City Council shall for all purposes be deemed to have been and to be empowered to pay out of the District Fund the said sum of two thousand dollars to Trustees to be nominated by the Council upon such trusts for the benefit of the said Isabella Ward and the three infant children of the said James Ward as the said Trustees, with the approval of the said City Council, shall by deed declare.

The payment by the Mount Eden Borough Council of the sum of six hundred dollars out of its General Account during the financial year ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, as a contribution to the Auckland Provincial War Memorial Fund is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the Public Works Act 1908, or in any other Act, the Petone Borough Council may transfer to His Majesty the King the areas hereinafter described in exchange for an area of land vested in His Majesty which is deemed to be more suitable to the needs of the borough.

(2) The lands which may be so transferred to His Majesty are more particularly described as follows:—

Firstly, all that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement two roods fifteen perches, more or less, being part of Section 5, Hutt Registration District, situated in the Borough of Petone, and bounded as follows: commencing at a point on the southern side of White's Line distant 299.7 links from the junction of the said White's Line and the Main Hutt Road, and proceeding in an easterly direction for a distance of 72.4 links along the aforesaid southern side of White's Line; thence towards the south-east by a line bearing 161° 19′ for a distance of 927.4 links to the western boundary of Section 6, Hutt Registration District; thence towards the south-west along the said boundary of Section 6 for a distance of 89.5 links; thence towards the north-west by a line bearing 341° 19′ for a distance of 1033 links to White's Line, the place of commencement: be all the aforesaid linkages a little more or less: and

Secondly, all that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement twenty-seven and two-tenths perches, more or less, being part of Lot 2 on deposited plan 890, and being part of Section 6, Hutt Registration District, situated in the Borough of Petone, and bounded as follows: commencing at a point on the western boundary of the said Section 6, 786.1 links distant from the southern side of White's Line, and proceeding in a south-easterly direction on a line bearing 161° 19′ for a distance of 318.9 links; thence towards the south-west by a line bearing 262° 19′ for a distance of 61.7 links; thence towards the north-west by a line bearing 341° 19′ for a distance of 241.2 links to the eastern boundary of Section 5, Hutt Registration District; thence towards the north-east along the said boundary of Section 5 for a distance of 89.5 links to the place of commencement: be all the aforesaid linkages a little more or less:

As the same are delineated on the plan marked L and S 22/3417, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

(3) The Council may sell any land acquired by it by way of exchange as aforesaid, and the proceeds of such sale and all revenues derived therefrom shall be paid into the Council's General Account for the purposes of that account.

(1) The New Plymouth Borough Council may from time to time, by special order, grant to any person, firm, or company a right or easement, for such period not exceeding fifty years and on such terms and conditions as the Council may think fit, authorizing such person, firm, or company to lay conduit-pipes for oils of any kind, petroleum or petroleum products, in the Borough of New Plymouth under or along any street or other public highway, or any other land vested in or controlled by the Council, or (with the consent of the owners) along any private way or private street; but no such grant shall be to the exclusion of like grants to any other person, firm, or company.

(2) The grant of any such right or easement shall be subject to the payment of such rent, and to the observance of such conditions as to size, construction, repair, and maintenance of such conduit-pipes, and as to repair of any street, public highway, or private way under or along which they are laid, or as to any matter or thing incidental to or in relation to such grant, as the Council thinks fit.

Whereas the Timaru Borough Council (hereinafter called the Council) did on the twenty-second day of August, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, take a poll of ratepayers upon a proposal to borrow by way of special loan under the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, the sum of fourteen thousand dollars for the purpose of installing sewerage-works in the Borough of Timaru, and such poll was duly carried, and the special loan was duly raised and called the Timaru Borough Drainage, Sewerage, and Works Loan No 7, $14,000 (hereinafter referred to as the said loan): And whereas by a Proclamation published in the Gazette of the eighth day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty, a certain area of land particularly described in the said Proclamation and hereinafter called the Watlington Area was included in the said Borough of Timaru as from the first day of January, nineteen hundred and twenty-one: And whereas the Council desires that it be empowered to make or pay out of the said loan, or out of any further sum raised under section eighteen of the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, or out of its General Fund, or partly out of one and partly out of any other of them, to the owner or owners of rateable property within the Watlington Area, on whose property a dwellinghouse had already been erected prior to the inclusion of that area within the said Borough of Timaru, allowances for the purpose of assisting such owner or owners to connect their lands, buildings, and premises within that area with the public sewer within that area: And whereas it is necessary for the benefit of the health of the inhabitants of the said borough generally that the Council be so empowered: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Timaru Borough Council may from time to time without any further authority than this section, either out of the moneys raised under the said loan or out of any further sum raised under section eighteen of the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, or out of its General Fund, or partly out of one and partly out of any other of them, pay to any owner of a dwellinghouse within the Watlington Area erected prior to the inclusion of that area in the Borough of Timaru an allowance not exceeding the sum of twenty dollars towards the cost of connecting such dwellinghouse and its appurtenant buildings with the public sewer within the Watlington Area:

Provided that from such allowance as aforesaid the Council shall be entitled to deduct the cost of extending or installing the branch sewer from the main sewer to the building-line of the land on which such dwellinghouse is erected.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Municipal Corporations Act 1920, or any other Act, the lands described in subsection two hereof, and any moneys arising from the sale of the said lands, may be dealt with by the Petone Borough Council, without further authorization, as it thinks fit for any of the purposes of the borough.

(2) The lands to which this section relates are particularly described as follows: All those pieces of land situate in the Borough of Petone, containing—

Firstly, three roods and eight-tenths of a perch, be the same a little more or less, being part of Section 6, Hutt District, and being part of Lot 2 on a plan deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Wellington under No 890, excepting out of the said Lot 2 all that piece or parcel of land bounded as follows: commencing at a point on the western boundary of Section 6, Hutt District, distant 786.1 links from the southern side of White's Line: thence in a south-easterly direction on a line bearing 161° 19′ for a distance of 318.8 links; thence towards the south-west on a line bearing 262° 19′ for a distance of 61.7 links; thence towards the north-west along a line bearing 341° 19′ for a distance of 241.2 links to a point on the eastern boundary of Section 5, Hutt District; thence towards the north-east along the eastern boundary of Section 5 for a distance of 89.5 links to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid linkages a little more or less.

Secondly, one acre one rood twenty-three perches and three-tenths of a perch, be the same a little more or less, being part of Section 6, Hutt District, and being Lot 3 on the aforesaid plan.

Thirdly, fourteen perches and seven-tenths of a perch, being part of Section 7, Hutt District, and being parts of Lots 32 and 33 on a plan deposited as aforesaid as No 709, and being all the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 86, folio 223, Wellington Registry.

The Wellington City Council is hereby authorized to lease to the Corporation of the Victoria University College for the purposes of a marine observatory, at such rent (including a peppercorn rent) and for such term not exceeding fifty years, and upon and subject to such conditions, limitations, and restrictions, as the Council shall in its absolute discretion think fit, any part not exceeding three roods in extent of the recreation-ground at Island Bay comprised in certificate of title, Volume 158, folios 256 and 257, Wellington Registry.

Whereas on the twenty-ninth day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, the Otahuhu Borough Council submitted to a poll of the ratepayers of the borough a proposal to borrow by way of special loan under the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, the sum of twenty-four thousand dollars to be allocated in the manner set out in the said proposal amongst certain waterworks improvements: And whereas the sum of eighteen thousand eight hundred dollars was in the said proposal allocated for the purpose of the purchase of Mannesman steel or cast-iron pipes and for the work of laying and connecting the same to replace the existing defective water-mains in certain streets in the borough named in the said loan proposal: And whereas the said loan proposal was duly carried, and the sum of eighteen thousand dollars only was duly raised by the said Council on account of the said allocation of eighteen thousand eight hundred dollars: And whereas the works for which the said sum of eighteen thousand eight hundred dollars was allocated in the said loan proposal have been completed at a less cost than the amount of such allocation, leaving a balance of two thousand one hundred and sixty-six dollars of the said allocation unexpended: And whereas the said Council is desirous of expending the said balance of two thousand one hundred and sixty-six dollars in reticulating certain other streets in the said borough and in certain other waterworks improvements: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Otahuhu Borough Council is hereby authorized and empowered to expend the said sum of two thousand one hundred and sixty-six dollars on the purchase, construction, laying, and fitting of additional pipes, mains, fittings, and appliances for the supply of water in the Borough of Otahuhu, and on the construction and erection, on lands vested in the Corporation of the borough, of buildings for the housing of machinery, fittings, and appliances in connection with its waterworks system.

(1) The Hamilton Borough Council is hereby authorized and empowered from time to time to lease the piece of land with right-of-way hereinafter mentioned, or any portion of such land, for a term of years to any person or body of persons, whether corporate or unincorporate, for the purpose of the lessee erecting and maintaining on such land a building for the use of a Plunket Nurse and mothers and children requiring her services.

(2) Any lease granted under the provisions of this section shall be for such period, at such rental, and subject to such conditions and provisions as the Hamilton Borough Council shall deem necessary and proper for the purpose aforesaid.

(3) The land with right-of-way referred to in subsection one hereof is all that piece of land, containing thirty-three and twenty-seven hundredths perches, more or less, being Lot 5 of a subdivision of Allotment 46 of the Town of Hamilton West, as delineated on a plan deposited in the Land Registry Office at Auckland as No 17380. Such land to be held with the right to use the right-of-way over other part of the said Allotment 46 delineated as a right-of-way or passage on a plan deposited as aforesaid as No 15653.

(1) The said special-rating area shall for all purposes be deemed to consist and at all times to have consisted of the whole of Sections 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 37, 75, 76, and 77, Block XIV, Ohinewairua Survey District, and the whole of that part of the said borough lying to the west of the North Island Main Trunk Railway, excepting thereout Sections 16, 19, 20, and 21, Block XIV, Ohinewairua Survey District.

(2) The said loan shall for all purposes be deemed to have been lawfully raised, and the said special rate shall at all times and for all purposes be deemed to have been lawfully made and levied, in respect of the said special-rating area as hereinbefore defined and all parts thereof.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Cemeteries Act 1908, or in any other Act, the vesting of the said area in the Corporation of the Borough of Otahuhu for the purposes and subject to the provisions of section seventy-eight of the Cemeteries Act 1908, is hereby cancelled, and the said area is hereby vested in the said Corporation as a reserve for municipal purposes.

(2) The Otahuhu Road Board and the Otahuhu Borough Council shall be deemed to have been lawfully empowered to erect and maintain a public pound on the said area.

(3) In particular, but without limiting the purposes for which the said area may be used, the Otahuhu Borough Council is hereby authorized to utilize any portions of the said area as sites for workers' dwellings and a depot for any plant and stores belonging to the said Council.

(4) The area of land to which this section relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that piece of land, containing three acres, more or less, being Lots 6, 8, and 10 of Section 8 of the Village of Otahuhu, Parish of Manurewa, Otahuhu Survey District, North Auckland Land District: bounded towards the north by Lot 4, 400 links; towards the east by a road, 750 links; towards the south by a road, 400 links; and towards the west by Lots 5, 7, and 9, 750 links: as the same is delineated on the public map or plan of the said Village of Otahuhu.

(1) The Wellington City Council may, for the purpose of providing funds out of which advances may be made to owners of premises in the City of Wellington for the purposes of drainage or sanitation works under Part 22 of the Municipal Corporations Act 1920, borrow moneys not exceeding in the aggregate fifty thousand dollars by way of special loan under the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, by special order, and without taking the steps prescribed by sections eight to twelve of the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913.

(2) The special rate made as security for any such loan may be made and levied over the whole of the city.

(3) In lieu of borrowing by way of special loan as aforesaid the Council may borrow by way of bank overdraft moneys not exceeding in the aggregate fifty thousand dollars for the purpose aforesaid, and such moneys so borrowed shall to the extent of the amount of contributions unpaid by such owners be excluded from the general overdraft of the Council in determining the amount of overdraft permitted under the Local Bodies Finance Act 1921-22.

Whereas the area of land situate in the City of Christchurch, being town sections numbered 610, 611, 612, 613, 614, 615, 616, 617, 618, 619, and 621, is vested in the Corporation of the City of Christchurch and is used by the City Council as the site of the power-house, workshops, garage, and offices of the Christchurch Municipal Electricity Department, the city destructor, the municipal baths, and the Council yard with stables, implement-sheds, and other buildings for the housing of the Council's horses and roadmaking implements and machines: And whereas the sites of the said stables and implement-sheds and other portions of the said area of land are not now required for these purposes: And whereas it is desirable to authorize the said Council to utilize for other purposes such portions of the said area of land as are not at present, or will not at any time, be required for the purposes for which they are now vested in the said Council: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

It shall be lawful for the Christchurch City Council from time to time to erect buildings upon the whole or any portion of the said area of land as is not required for the purpose for which it is now vested in the said Corporation, and to let the said buildings, or such of them as shall not for the time being be required for the use of the said Council.

Whereas there has existed a dispute between the Whakatane Borough Council (hereinafter called the Council) and the Spiral and Lock-bar Steel Pipe Company of New Zealand (Limited), of Wanganui, with respect to the balance of an amount owing by the Council to the said company for pipes, fittings, and materials purchased by the Council from the said company for the Council's high-pressure water-supply in the Borough of Whakatane: And whereas the Council and the company did on the twentieth day of August, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, agree upon a settlement of the said dispute, whereby the Council agreed to pay to the said company the sum of two thousand three hundred and six dollars and twenty-eight and a third cents in full settlement of the said amount, in instalments of one hundred dollars a month, commencing on the twentieth day of September, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, together with interest on the balance thereof from time to time remaining unpaid at the rate of six dollars and fifty cents per centum per annum computed from the said twentieth day of August nineteen hundred and twenty-five: And whereas it is desired to validate the said agreement and to empower the Council to pay the interest at the said rate: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The said agreement between the Council and the said company is hereby validated and the Council empowered out of its General Account or its Water-supply Account to pay to the said company, on the amount from time to time outstanding as aforesaid, interest at the rate of thirteen dollars per centum per annum in accordance with the terms of the said agreement.

Section one hundred and twenty-six of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1924, is hereby amended by inserting, after paragraph (c) of subsection three thereof, the following new paragraph:—

Whereas the Hastings Borough Council, being duly authorized by a poll of ratepayers taken on the second day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, raised a loan of ninety-eight thousand dollars under the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, for undertaking certain works in the Borough of Hastings, a portion of such loan—namely, thirty thousand dollars—being specifically allocated for expenditure on the construction of four hundred and eighty-one chains of new concrete footpaths (where the kerbs and channels are already established), and eight hundred and thirty-one chains of new concrete channels, kerbs, and footpaths: And whereas those works have been completed for less than that sum, and it is desirable to authorize the said Council to expend the surplus in constructing other concrete channels, kerbs, and footpaths in the said borough: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, or in any other Act, it shall be lawful for the Hastings Borough Council to expend any surplus of the said sum of thirty thousand dollars not required for the purposes for which the said sum was allocated in constructing new concrete channels, kerbs, and footpaths in such portion of the said borough as the said Council thinks fit.

(1) The lands hereinafter described are hereby freed from all reservations, trusts, and uses affecting the same, and such lands shall hereafter be held by the Corporation as an endowment for the benefit and improvement of the Borough of New Plymouth.

(2) The lands to which this section relates are particularly described as follows:—

Firstly, all that parcel of land in the Town of New Plymouth, containing three roods sixteen and two-tenths perches, being Allotments 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 26, 27, 28, 29, and 30 on deposited plan 578, and being the whole of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 104, folio 260, Taranaki Registry.

Secondly, all that parcel of land in the Town of New Plymouth, containing together thirty-two and fourth-tenths perches, being Section 13, Storehouse Reserve, part of the bed of the Huatoki Stream and part of original bed of Huatoki Stream, being the whole of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 48, folio 53, Taranaki Registry.

The Wellington City Council is hereby authorized to expend out of moneys in the hands of the Council under deed dated the thirty-first day of July, nineteen hundred and eleven, made between Charles John Johnston, of the City of Wellington, merchant, of the one part, and the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of Wellington, of the other part, relating to certain moneys known as the Wellington Jubilee Fund, held for the purpose of carrying into effect resolutions passed at a public meeting held in the City of Wellington on the fifth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety, as set out in that deed, a sum of not more than two hundred dollars in purchasing certain photographs and pictures exhibited at the Winter Show held in Wellington in the month of August, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, and in providing suitable cases and frames for the same.

(1) The Wellington City Council may in respect of an alleged nuisance arising from smoke from its electric power-house at Evans Bay pay in full satisfaction of all present and future claims by persons claiming to be affected by such nuisance allowances not exceeding in the whole three thousand dollars out of moneys to the credit of the tramways undertaking and the electric light and power supply undertaking on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-five.

(2) No such allowance shall be paid under this section to any person unless the General Manager or other officer for the time being appointed by the City Council to manage the Wellington City Corporation Tramways certifies that the claimant is, in his opinion, entitled to the amount proposed to be paid.

(3) No such allowance shall be paid to any person who has received any compensation under the provisions of the Public Works Act 1908, in respect of any such nuisance, nor shall any such allowance be paid to any person who has made a claim for such compensation unless and until he executes a release by deed of all claims for compensation under the Public Works Act 1908, or otherwise howsoever.

Whereas on the twenty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, the Westport Borough Council was authorized by the ratepayers of the borough to raise two separate loans of forty-seven thousand dollars (for the purpose of installing electric light and power within the Borough of Westport) and six thousand dollars (for the purpose of advances of money to ratepayers for private electric connections) respectively: And whereas the former such loan, together with a further sum not greater than one-tenth of the amount originally authorized by the ratepayers which has already been raised, is insufficient for the purpose of completing the undertaking in respect of which it was raised, and an additional sum of two thousand dollars is required for such purpose: And whereas the said loan of six thousand dollars is greater than is necessary for the purpose of completing the public work for which it was raised, and it is expedient to spend two thousand dollars of such loan on the public work for which the loan of forty-seven thousand dollars was obtained: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, the Westport Borough Council may utilize any sum not exceeding two thousand dollars (being portion of the unexpended balance of the said loan of six thousand dollars) for the purpose of completing the work for which the said loan of forty-seven thousand dollars was raised.

(1) The reservation of the said land as a reserve and endowment for the improvement and benefit of the Town of New Plymouth is hereby cancelled.

(2) The New Plymouth Borough Council is hereby empowered to sell the said land and to pay the proceeds of such sale into its General Account for the purposes of that account.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Municipal Corporations Act 1920, or any other Act, it shall be lawful for the Helensville Town Board to make and levy water rates or charges in respect both of the ordinary as well as of any extraordinary supply according to the quantity of water consumed by any person receiving the same as measured by meter, at such rates or charges as may be fixed by any by-law in that behalf or as may be agreed on with any such person and all water rates or charges so payable shall be deemed to be separate rates, and may be recovered accordingly.

(2) This section shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-four.

It shall be lawful for the Otago Harbour Board to remit the pilotage and port charges payable in respect of the vessel Sir James Clark Ross on account of the entry of that vessel into the Port of Otago in the month of November, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, and again in the month of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-five.

The sum of three hundred and sixty-nine dollars and forty cents expended by the Otago Harbour Board in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-four in celebrating the jubilee of the said Board, and the sum of one hundred and ninety-one dollars and fifty-six and two-third cents expended by the said Board in the same year for the insertion of matter relating to the Port of Otago in a publication named Progressive New Zealand, and also the further sum of five hundred dollars expended by the said Board in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-five for the insertion of matter relating to the said port in a publication named New Zealand To-day, shall be deemed to have been lawfully expended.

The expenditure of the sum of three hundred and twenty-six dollars and sixty-seven and a half cents by the Bluff Harbour Board for the insertion of matter relating to the Bluff Harbour District in a publication called New Zealand To-day is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

Whereas the Motueka Harbour Board desires authority to contribute the sum of one thousand four hundred dollars towards the cost of constructing a road and bridge across the tidal land and tidal waters of Moutere Estuary in order to provide improved access to the Port of Motueka, and it is considered expedient to grant such authority: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything contained in the Harbours Act 1923, the Motueka Harbour Board may, out of its General Account, contribute a sum not exceeding one thousand four hundred dollars towards the construction of a road and bridge across the Moutere Estuary to provide improved access to the Port of Motueka.

(1) Notwithstanding that the period has expired within which the Wairau Harbour Board is bound by any contract entered into pursuant to subsection two of section ninety-nine of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1914, to pay the purchase-moneys in respect of any lands, tenements, and hereditaments purchased by it pursuant to that subsection, the said Board may agree with the vendors for an extension of time within which to pay the balance of such moneys unpaid at the expiration of such period as aforesaid, and may pay interest at such rate as may be approved by the Minister of Finance on the balance of such moneys for the time being outstanding.

(2) The power conferred by the said Board by subsection three of the said section ninety-nine is hereby extended to enable the said Board to lease any lands, tenements, and hereditaments pursuant to that subsection for any term not exceeding eighteen years from the date of purchase of such lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and in any case where a lease has heretofore been granted for a term of less than eighteen years the Board may, notwithstanding that such period may have expired before the passing of this Act, extend such lease for a term or terms expiring not later than eighteen years after the date of the purchase by the Board of the lands, tenements, or hereditaments in respect of which it was granted.

Whereas the Opunake Town Board was on the fourteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and nineteen, authorized by the ratepayers of the Opunake Town District to raise a loan of fourteen thousand dollars for the purpose of generating and distributing electric energy, and to pay to the Public Trustee the amount of principal owing under its Acetylene-gas Loan, being approximately one thousand one hundred and eighty dollars: And whereas, owing to the action taken by the Opunake Electric-power Board as hereinafter recited, the Opunake Town Board did not complete the matter for which the loan was authorized and has not so repaid the amount of such Acetylene-gas Loan: And whereas the Opunake Electric-power Board was on the sixteenth day of November, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, duly authorized by the ratepayers of the Opunake Electric-power District to raise a loan of one hundred and forty thousand dollars for the purpose of generating and distributing electric energy throughout the Opunake Electric-power District and outer area: And whereas in the notice published by the Opunake Electric-power Board pursuant to section nine of the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, it was stated that the loan-moneys were to be applied in purchasing the hydro-electric works then in the course of construction by the Opunake Town Board, and in payment of the liabilities of the said Board in respect of the same, and in the further manner set out in such notice, and the raising of the said loan was authorized on that understanding: And whereas no provision was made in such notice published by the Opunake Electric-power Board to repay the said Acetylene-gas Loan: And whereas it is deemed advisable to authorize the repayment of the said Acetylene-gas Loan out of the loan-moneys raised by the Opunake Electric-power Board pursuant to the said authority: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, or any other Act, the Opunake Electric-power Board is hereby authorized to expend out of the proceeds of the loan authorized as aforesaid to be raised by it the sum of one thousand one hundred and eighty dollars for the purpose of repaying the said Acetylene-gas Loan of the Opunake Town Board.

Whereas it is provided by section thirty-seven of the Electric-power Boards Act 1918, that an Electric-power Board may provide public offices within the electric-power district: And whereas, owing to the scattered nature of the different parts of the Waitemata Electric-power District and the difficulties of access between them, it is expedient that the public offices of the said district be established in the City of Auckland, which is not within the district: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Waitemata Electric-power Board is hereby authorized to exercise within the City of Auckland the powers conferred by section thirty-seven of the Electric-power Boards Act 1918, as if the said city were situated within the Waitemata Electric-power District.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, or any other Act, the Board may from time to time out of the loan of five hundred and ninety-three thousand dollars hereinbefore referred to expend for any of the purposes set out in sections eighty-eight and ninety of the Electric-power Boards Act 1918, such sum or sums, not exceeding in the whole the sum of fifty thousand dollars, as it thinks fit. The authority hereby conferred shall extend to cover the sum or sums heretofore expended out of the said loan on the aforesaid purposes, and the said sum or sums shall be deemed to have been lawfully expended in pursuance of that authority.

(2) Out of the sum of fifty thousand dollars hereby authorized to be expended on the aforesaid purposes the Board may repay to its Power Fund Account such sum or sums not exceeding in the whole the sum of four thousand dollars as have heretofore been expended from that account on the aforesaid purposes.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, or any other Act, the Wanganui-Rangitikei Electric-power Board may pay, out of the proceeds of loans raised by it for its undertaking, the interest and sinking-fund charges in respect of such loans accruing up to the date electricity from the Government power-works at Mangahao becomes available for use in the Board's district:

Provided that the total amount that may be so paid in respect of such loans pursuant to the authority conferred by this section shall not exceed fifty thousand dollars.

Whereas the Taranaki Electric-power Board was on the fifth day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, duly authorized by the ratepayers of the Taranaki Electric-power District to raise a loan of seven hundred thousand dollars to be allocated amongst the purposes set out in the loan proposal in the proportions specified therein: And whereas the amounts raised by the Board for the said purposes are insufficient for some and are more than sufficient for others of the said purposes: And whereas it is expedient that the Board should be authorized to expend such loan-moneys for the said purposes in the manner hereinafter provided instead of in the manner authorized as aforesaid: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, or in any other Act, it shall be lawful for the said Board to apply the moneys borrowed or to be borrowed in such manner as it thinks fit to the carrying-out of the purposes for which the loan was authorized irrespective of the specific amounts allocated to the said purposes in the loan proposal.

(1) In the conditions of the license to be issued to the Waitomo Electric-power Board under section two of the Public Works Amendment Act 1911 [Repealed], there may be inserted provisions governing the change-over hereinbefore referred to and the allocation between the licensee and the consumers of the cost of adjusting, altering, or replacing installations consequent on such change-over. Provision may be made—

• (a) For classification of consumers' installations into the following classes:—

  • (i) Class A: Installations in which the wiring is found to be in accordance with the requirements of the license issued to the Te Kuiti Borough Council by Order in Council dated the fourth day of August, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and published in the Gazette on the seventh day of the same month, and in accordance with the rules of the New Zealand Fire Underwriters' Association relating to electric wiring, and only require alterations necessitated by the change in system.

  • (ii) Class B: Installations in which the wiring is found to be defective under the requirements of the aforesaid license or the aforesaid rules of the New Zealand Fire Underwriters' Association.

  • (iii) Class C: Installations in which the wiring is worn out and under any conditions of supply would require to be rewired within a short period.

• (b) For the allocation between licensee and consumers of the cost consequent on the change-over in the following manner according to the class of the installation:—

  • (i) Class A: The whole of the cost shall be paid by the licensee:

    Provided always that in the case of extensions and alterations which have not been authorized by the licensee the cost of alterations thereto shall be borne by the consumer.

  • (ii) Class B: The cost of removing all defects shall be paid by the consumer, and the cost of alterations due to change in system shall be paid by the licensee.

  • (iii) Class C: The whole cost shall be paid by the consumer.

(2) The following conditions may also be inserted in such license:—

• (a) All work required to be done pursuant to the change-over in connection with installations of classes A and B shall, unless otherwise agreed between the licensee and the consumer, be carried out by the licensee.

• (b) All money expended by the licensee for this purpose shall, in cases where the consumer may be liable, be a charge on the premises of the consumer and recoverable accordingly. Provision may be made for consumers who do not desire to pay in full at the time of the alterations to pay in instalments due with their regular accounts for the supply of electricity.

• (c) In case of any dispute arising in respect of matters affected by this clause between the licensee and a consumer, a Board of Appeal (whose decision shall be final) shall be set up to decide such dispute, which Board of Appeal shall consist of the following:—

  • (i) One representative appointed by the licensee:

  • (ii) One representative appointed by the consumer on whose premises the alterations are necessary:

  • (iii) The District Court Judge for the district, who shall be Chairman.

(3) All the provisions and conditions of such license when issued shall be valid and binding on the licensee and every consumer.

Whereas the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Waitemata Electric-power Board rendered certain services to the Board by visiting and inspecting Power Boards' offices situated at Te Kuiti, Te Awamutu, New Plymouth, and Te Aroha: And whereas the Board paid the sum of twelve dollars and eighteen and a third cents to the Chairman and the sum of twenty-three dollars and sixty-two and a half cents to the Deputy Chairman towards the travelling-expenses incurred by them respectively during the said visits and inspections, and it is desired to validate such payments: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The payments by the Waitemata Electric-power Board of the said sum of twelve dollars and eighteen and a third cents to the Chairman and the said sum of twenty-three dollars and sixty-two and a half cents to the Deputy Chairman of the Board in respect of the said visits and inspections are hereby validated.

Whereas it is provided by section thirty-seven of the Electric-power Boards Act 1918, that an Electric-power Board may provide public offices within the electric-power district: And whereas owing to the scattered nature of the different parts of the Otago Electric-power District, and the difficulties of access between them, it is expedient that the public offices of the said district be established in the City of Dunedin, which is not within the district: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Otago Electric-power Board is hereby authorized to exercise within the City of Dunedin the powers conferred by section thirty-seven of the Electric-power Boards Act 1918, as if the said city were situated within the Otago Electric-power District.

The expenditure by the Auckland Hospital Board during the current financial year of a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars in connection with the entertainment of delegates to the Hospitals Conference held at Auckland in the month of May, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully incurred.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in sections twenty-six and twenty-seven of the Auckland Grammar School Act 1899, the Governor-General in Council may, on the application of the Auckland Grammar School Board, from time to time extend the powers of that Board to borrow moneys in excess of the limits fixed by those sections.

Whereas three members of the Board of Managers of the Pukekohe Technical High School (hereinafter referred to as the Board) contracted with the Board and received payment for their services amounting in all to three hundred and fifty-three dollars and thirty cents: And whereas the payment to the said members was disallowed by the Controller and Auditor-General, and the moneys received by those members were refunded to the Board: And whereas the said members subsequently resigned from the Board, and the Board repaid to those members the moneys refunded as aforesaid: And whereas such last-mentioned payment has been disallowed by the Controller and Auditor-General, and it is expedient to validate such payment: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Public Contracts and Local Bodies Contractors Act 1908, the payment by the Board of the sum of three hundred and fifty-three dollars and thirty cents as aforesaid is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

(1) For the purpose of building a school and hostel in connection with the Napier Boys' High School, the Napier High School Board, constituted under the Napier High School Act 1882, may, with the consent of the Governor-General in Council, borrow from the Public Trustee, and the Public Trustee may lend to the said Board out of the Common Fund of the Public Trust Office notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Public Trust Office Act 1908, or its amendments, a sum not exceeding thirty thousand dollars on the security of the rents and profits of all or any of the lands vested in or belonging to the said Board, at such rate of interest, for such term of years, and upon such conditions as the said Board and the Public Trustee may agree upon and the Governor-General approves.

(2) If the Public Trustee shall grant the said loan, the instrument or instruments of security may be in such form, and may confer upon the Public Trustee such authorities, powers, and remedies for securing the repayment of the principal, interest, and other moneys intended to be secured thereby, and may contain such covenants, agreements, conditions, and provisions, as the Public Trustee shall require: and in particular may empower the Public Trustee, in case of default in payment of any such moneys, or in the performance or observance of any of the said covenants, agreements, conditions, or provisions, to enter into possession of the said rents and profits, or to appoint a receiver thereof.

Whereas the Trustees of the Winton Racecourse, under the Winton Racecourse Reserve Management Ordinance, 1873, desire to erect on the said racecourse a new dwellinghouse to replace one that has become uninhabitable, and for that purpose to borrow money: And whereas the said Trustees have no authority at law to borrow, and it is deemed expedient to confer such authority as hereinafter provided: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the said Winton Racecourse Reserve Management Ordinance, 1873, or in the Public Reserves and Domains Act 1908, the said Trustees may, with the sanction of the Minister of Finance, borrow on the security of the rents, issues, and profits of the lands vested in them, at such rate of interest as may be approved by the said Minister, a sum not exceeding two thousand four hundred dollars, and may expend the same in erecting a dwellinghouse on the said racecourse.

Whereas the Hukanui Public Hall Board is incorporated under the Religious, Charitable and Educational Trusts Act 1908: And whereas the said Board is desirous of erecting a new public hall in lieu of the present hall, which is in a state of decay, and is no longer suitable for the requirements of the district, and for that purpose to borrow money on the security of property vested in it: And whereas the Board has no power to give such security: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

For the purposes of the erection of a public hall at Gordonton in lieu of the present hall, known as the Hukanui Public Hall, the Hukanui Public Hall Board is hereby empowered to borrow such moneys as it may require, and to give as security therefor a mortgage or charge over any land or other property vested in it. Any mortgage given for the purpose of this section may contain a covenant that the mortgagee shall have power to sell the mortgaged property or any part thereof in the event of default being made by the Board in the payment of principal or interest.

The Schedule to the Wanganui River Trust Amendment Act 1922, is hereby amended as follows, as from the date of commencement of that Act:—

• (a) By omitting the words “thence northerly along the left bank of the said Wanganui River to a point opposite the mouth of the Ohura River” where they appear at the end of the description of the lands firstly described in the said Schedule, and substituting the words “thence down the centre of the Wanganui River to the point of commencement.”

• (b) By omitting the words “the Wanganui River” where they last appear in the description of the lands thirdly described in the said Schedule, and substituting the words “its junction with the Raorikia Road; thence in an easterly direction along the said Raorikia Road to the southern boundary of Section 4, Block X, Waipakura Survey District, along the southern boundary of said Section 4 and the production thereof to the Wanganui River; and thence up the centre of said Wanganui River to the point of commencement.”

The Trustees of the Dunedin Savings-bank, being a savings-bank constituted under the Savings-banks Act 1908, are hereby authorized to pay out of the profits of the bank the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars to the University of Otago, and the said sum, as to both capital and income, shall be applied in or towards the purchase of apparatus for use in the new Dental School of the said University, anything in any Act to the contrary notwithstanding.

(1) It shall be lawful for the existing Trustees of the aforementioned trust property, by deed, to convey and assure unto the Board absolutely the fee-simple of the above-recited land and hereditaments, together with the hall erected thereon and known as the Henderson Public Hall, freed and discharged from the trusts declared in the aforementioned deed, No 197808.

(2) Such conveyance and assurance shall be otherwise made subject to all existing encumbrances affecting the said land and hereditaments.

(3) Upon the exercise by the existing Trustees of the powers conferred upon them by the foregoing provisions of this section they shall cease to be Trustees of the settlement, and thereupon the trusts created by the aforementioned deed No 197808 shall determine.

(4) Section forty-two of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1924, is hereby repealed.

Subsection three of section one hundred and thirty-one of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1924, is hereby amended by omitting the words “to the Wanganui River Trust, who shall apply the said revenues,” and substituting the words “into the Wanganui River Trust Domain Account, and the said revenues shall be applied.”